Hi All, I'm new to this forum. I use perl to do the regex, and AFAIK, regex do the parsing from left to right, so if I use /A.*?D/  on  A1BA2CA3DA4E, the matched result will be A1BA2CA3D so what is the regex to match an example case A3D on A1BA2CA3DA4E, Note : The numbers in between (1,2,3) is only an example for any character ...