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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:56:38 -0600
From:      "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net>
To:        "Mark Ovens" <marko@freebsd.org>, "Duke Normandin" <dnormandin1@juno.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OT - Perl regex problem
Message-ID:  <000201c02ce1$289e4a60$5e99c5d1@odie>

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On Monday, October 02, 2000 11:43 AM Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> wrote:


>On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 05:44:10AM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote:
>> Hi..
>> 
>> This is a Perl5 regex from some PD utility:
>> 
>> $email =~ s/^.*?(From|Received|Sender|Return-Path|Date):/$1:/s;
>> 
>> I want to do it in Perl4 -- don't ask why ;) -- but it pukes on
>> the ^.*? stuff. Something about "nested" whatever. Could somebody
>> explain this ^.*? to me or point me to an appropriate mailing list?
>> Tia...
>
>Try comp.lang.perl.misc on Usenet.


Thanks for the help!

-duke



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