Re: grabbing text between two tokens

Sharan Basappa wrote:
Gary Stainburn wrote:
On Monday 14 April 2008 16:35, Sharan Basappa wrote:
I am trying to capture the text between two tokens. These tokens
always exist in pairs but can occur N times.
I somehow dont get what I want.

$str =~ m/tokena(.*)tokenb/ms;
print $1;

Try

$str =~ m/tokena(.*?)tokenb/ms;

actually I tried this before posting this question. The issue is that
regex stops after first match.

Show us a short but _complete_ program, and we can help you correct it.

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