in reply to Re^2: Puzzled by regex
in thread Puzzled by regex

David,

Thanks for correcting me. I was just dead wrong.

It's explained here: Matching Repititions, Down a bit it explains, "minimal match or non-greedy quantifiers ?? , *? , +?, and {}?"

Learn something new every day.

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Re^4: Puzzled by regex
by davido (Cardinal) on Apr 10, 2013 at 07:05 UTC

    Nothing to be ashamed of. ;) I often remind myself to leave regex-related questions alone because they're so hard to answer correctly.


    Dave

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