Perl regular expression to match the first instance of ? across multiple lines

Question

I am trying to parse an e-mail reply using regular expressions. My response looks like:

This is my response.
Some text here

?



?



From: Lastname, Firstname

Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 7:37 PM

To: Lastname, Firstname

Subject: Some Subject



?



Some Text

I am interested in parsing everything up to the first ?. I have tried utilizing single line mode with $response =~ /^(.*)\?\n/s;. But that returns me everything up to the last ?. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

.* is greedy. The non-greedy version .*? should work.