Rob Coops wrote:
$text = "2 minutes, and 8 seconds";
$text =~ /(\d{1,2}).*?(\d{1,2}).*/;
---------------------------------^^When you are extracting stuff, .* is _always_ redundant in the beginning or end of a regex.
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