Re: Regex: Matching last of repeated character to end of string

[davis]

I wouldn't use greediness at all. I'd use "Not this character" matches:

use warnings;
use strict;

my $xpath = 'BoringNode[1]/InterestingNode[@InterestingAttribute="outg
+rabe"]/AnotherBoringNode[5]';
$xpath =~ s|\/[^/]+$||;
print $xpath . "\n";

That's "any character that isn't a slash"