Re^2: Must do regex range quantifier { } as a greedy

Your elegant solution won't match the edge case of aa, but it's unclear to me whether that is relevant for the OP.

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Re^3: Must do regex range quantifier { } as a greedy by LanX (Saint) on Jan 17, 2022 at 10:14 UTC
> won't match the edge case of `aa` hmm ... works for me `DB<24> say 'aa' =~ /aa(?!a)b{0,2}/; say "<$&>" 1 <aa>` [download] or did you mean something else? Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Must do regex range quantifier { } as a greedy by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 17, 2022 at 10:17 UTC
Aaah - I got tripped up by my own test harness. Yes, once I use your regular expression, it works for me as well.	[reply]