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Backreferencing and greedy quantifiers

    

$string="asdfadfadfadsfasdf YOU!";
$string=~s/(.*C)(.*)/HEY/; # Substitute the whole string with HEY
print $1, "\n";
print $2, "\n";
print "$string\n";








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