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Since you're seeking help, you'd better explain what you mean by "change my previously greedy quantification into a possessive modality" -- perhaps with a description of your intent that actually provides comprehensible information. And it wouldn't hurt to show a (small) sample of your data and your desired output (and possibly, explain why the last part of the code sample in para 1, ($meanSearchTerm) doesn't match the error message you posted.

BTW, Perl 5.14 on win7 executes your sample (minus the ($meanSearchTerm) without squawking:

C:>perl -e "my $foo='123.123';$foo =~/(\d++\.\d++)/oi; print $1;" 123.123 C:>

Update/afterthought: I was actually well started writing an explanation of why that wouldn't compile when I decided to check. Once again, testing saves my butt.


In reply to Re: Perl Complains of Nested Quantifiers by ww
in thread Perl Complains of Nested Quantifiers by sunmaz

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