Re: A NOT in regular expressions

[rruiz]

You don't post your regular expression for us to take a look at it, but I think that you need to use the non greedy operator '?' in your re. Like:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;

my $s = 'stuff <% junk %> more stuff <% more junk %> end';
print "$s\n";
$s =~ s/<%.*?%>//g;
print "$s\n";

Which makes the re to take the shortest match.

HTH
God bless you
rruiz