I realize that this is not really a FreeBSD question, but I like this mailing list and the answers that are sent to it :).

My question is: How do I have perl return me the first and only the first match to a regular expression? I know that I can return /all/ matches to an array, and get the first one, but I only want to have it evaluate as far as the first match and then stop.

For example, given the string xayxbyxcy and the regular expression x.y, I want it to return to me only xay and not evaluate any further.

Thanks in advance.

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