Hamish Whittal wrote:
(Example 1)
I have the following lines:
This is some text....<B
luebird>..MBAAAEgAAAQAB
blaah,blaah
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
(Example 2)
but sometimes it looks like this:
This is some text....<Bluebird>..
MBAAAEgAAAQAoBAAAQKAREDSCETRTBDFS
blaah,blaah
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
Now, given this, I am wanting to skip over the text when I find it
(bounded by <Bluebird> and =+=+=+)
So, I have a loop as follows:
LINE: while ( <> ) {
next LINE if (m/\.{4}<B.*ird>/s .. /(\+\=\+)$/);
print;
}
The "next" works fine if the <Bluebird> tag is not split as in
example (2) above, but fails when the <Bluebird> tag is split as in
example (1) above.
Can anyone show me what I am doing wrong.
Hard to tell, since you didn't post a complete program + sample data
that illustrates your problem. Can it possibly be that you need to
make the first regex non-greedy?
/\.{4}<B.*?ird>/s
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