perlquestion AntsPants Bonjour Monkers, <p /> I have a regex that just doesn;t do what I think it should, no matter how loud I read out in English what it should be doing ;) <p /> Trying to match blah/blah/blah#ThisIsWhatIWant?ButNotThisEtc <p /> <code> #(.*[^\?]) doesn't work </code> <p /> Whereas <p /> <code> #([\w]+[^\?]) does work!! </code> <p /> the one that fails, I've tried a host of ways including <p /> <code> #(.*)\[^\?\] #(.+)\[^\?\] .... and more </code> <p /> But I keep getting ThisIsWhatIWant?ButNotThisEtc matched <p /> Any pointers would be terrrrrrrrrific. <p /> Merci <p /> -Ants