in reply to Re: Regex problem - (non)greedy?
in thread Regex problem - (non)greedy?

I think
$x =~ /.* cd (.*?) ghi/x

Is better, but can't test ATM... : )

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

update

Moved ? into group...

PS: ikegami msged me in the meantime thx :)

update

 > ikegami says Re Re^2: Regex problem - (non)greedy? By the way, you really want to add a leading ^ to that to speed things up greatly when the pattern doesn't match.

He's (normally) right! ++

might depend on how nifty Perl optimized the regex...