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in reply to Re^4: Matching a string in a parenthesized block (regex help)
in thread Matching a string in a parenthesized block (regex help)

> s .*? is searching for any character including the closing brace }.

Yes, that's why I added an alternative.

Cheers Rolf
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Re^6: Matching a string in a parenthesized block (regex help)
by maxamillionk (Acolyte) on Mar 06, 2021 at 14:28 UTC

    Thanks I think I got the right regex now, this seems to work

    m/(ASDF_$arg \{)([^}]*?)magic(.*?)(\})/s

    That is exactly what I wanted.

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