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The last task, to match a question, can be solved quite easily by reversing the string.
Note that it's OK to use .*? here. And due to optimizations in the regex engine it's even faster to use it than a negative char class, if the following pattern is constant as it is in this case. It's also very easy to make it work for escaped quotes by adding a negative look-ahead. my ($m) = reverse($myvar) =~ /"\?(.*?)"(?!\\)/s; Note that here you must use .*? instead of a negative char class since you want the engine to backtrack. -Anomo In reply to Re: Death to Dot Star!
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