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KingBob
KingBob

Reputation: 37

How to find all instances of text between two delimiters (perl)?

I would like to parse the text

==== Example 1 ====
Some text that doesn't contain 4 equals signs
==== Example 2 ====
More text that doesn't contain 4 equals signs
==== Example 3 ====
Even more text that doesn't contain 4 equals signs

My goal is to get an array with elements "Example 1", "Example 2", and "Example 3" using RegEx in Perl. I'm a beginner in Perl and RegEx, so initially I used the greedy method which returned text I din't want. When I later used a non-greedy method, I was only able to get "Example 1." My latest attempt:

my @matches = ($text =~ /====(*?[ -~\s])====/g);

Edit: I realize how to do this; instead I want to return multiple matches instead of one.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 366

Answers (1)

Robin
Robin

Reputation: 9644

Why not /====\s?(.*?)\s?====/g?

Not perfect, but if your cases are pretty simple...

Upvotes: 4

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