On Sep 8, Gary Luther said:
>$line =~ s/\s{2,}(\w+(\s?\W?\w+)*).*?/$1/;
I think you want to use something a bit simpler for the \w+... part:
$line =~ s/\s{2,}(\S+(?:\s\S+)*).*/$1/;
That gets non-whitespace (\S+) followed by any number of occurrences of a
single whitespace followed by MORE non-whitespace.
The reason the end of your regex breaks is because you use .*? which
matches as few characters as it needs to (which is 0). Use .* instead.
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