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Re: Re: $1 and regex

by tlhf (Scribe)
on Aug 28, 2002 at 02:07 UTC ( [id://193337]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: $1 and regex
in thread $1 and regex

While the + quantifier is often described as matching "one or more times", this description conflicts with one's inner hacker. As it is greedy, surly it should be written as something along the lines of "matching more or one times".

tlhf
Just trying to make things legible.

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