Re: how to match the first pattern

On Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at 9:46:43 AM UTC+8, Sand Glass wrote:
> On Monday, July 30, 2018 at 8:13:26 PM UTC+8, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Chr. von Stuckrad
> > <stucki@mi.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, Sand Glass wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 3:18:23 PM UTC+8, Sand Glass wrote:
> > >> > how can I stop the pattern at the first "]"?
> > >> It's good in vim. Then I try to use the regular in perl script, but failed.
> > >
> > > Same 'thing', i.e. the shortest match, so (in linux 'man perlre')
> > > as far as I remember a '?' behind the '*' makes it 'non-greedy'
> > > and this \[.*?\] gives 'the next closing ']' .

If I use perl script to get the same result in vim. The RE is(match the pattern and remove them):
$line =~ s/\[.*?\]//g

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