> You want a look-ahead:
>
> $data =~ s{
> <(.+?)> # <, then one or more characters ($1), then >
> (.*?) # zero or more characters ($2)
> (?= <.+?> ) # look ahead for '<...>' (but don't actually match it)
> }{<$1>$2</$1>}xg;
aah... this is a very useful part of regular expressions that i've
never used nor
understood untill now :) thank you very much for the help in
figuring this out.
i'll go off and play with this right now :)
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Willy
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