Regex: Matching last of repeated character to end of string

loris has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello all,

I wanted to remove the final section of an XPath string using a regex. I obviously don't understand non-greediness, because I though this would work:

my $xpath = 'BoringNode[1]/InterestingNode[@InterestingAttribute="outg
+rabe"]/AnotherBoringNode[5]';
$xpath =~ s|\/(.*?)$||;
print $xpath . "\n";
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I had hoped to get

BoringNode[1]/InterestingNode[@InterestingAttribute="outgrabe"]
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Can anyone help?

Thanks,

loris

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