Re: This regex seems to have splattered non-greedy everywhere

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It can be easily made to work if you first take out the quoted stuff. Bear in mind that this (and your) code does not handle quoted text that spans lines.

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

while (<DATA>)
{
  chomp;

  s/'[^']+'//g;
  print $_, "\n" for split /XX/;
}

__END__
aXXbXXc
abcd
a little 'quote XX' quote stuff XX other
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pbeckingham - typist, perishable vertebrate.

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