I think my original post was a bit too unclear.
I am looking for at most the first two words. So it may be zero, one or two.
I've modified his code to:
my $firstWord = undef;
my $secondWord = undef;
my $i = 0;
while ($message =~ /([A-Za-z0-9]+)/g) {
if ($i == 0) {
$firstWord = $1;
}
elsif ($i == 1) {
$secondWord = $1;
last;
}
$i++;
}
which does exactly what I was looking for. I only tried to do it in one regexp.
Thanks, Marcel
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