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Paul Appleby wrote:
> Michael,
>
> This might be safer:
>
> $line=~/^([^-]*?)-/;
>
> $everything_to_first_hyphen=$1;
Why would that be ? And safer than what (you removed the RE you were
referring to) ? The ? is redundant and I don't see why [^-]* would be
any safer than .*?- (I might use either).
>>I'm sure this is obvious, but I'm missing it - What's the regular
>>expression to extract everything from the start of the line to the
>>first hyphen?
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