Re^4: Non-greedy substitution

Your mental model of what Ť.+?ť does is severely flawed

Well, yes...hence the need to ask the question...

Ť.+?ť doesn't do any checks related to commas

But I included the comma in my example...perhaps I could have formatted it so it was more prominent.

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Re^5: Non-greedy substitution by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 18, 2024 at 01:34 UTC
I know. But you said you thought Ť,.+?$ť searches for "the shortest possible match within the string that starts with a comma". Since neither «`,`» nor «`$`» searches for the shortest possible anything (starting with a comma or otherwise), that means you though «`.+?`» did that. «`.+?`» doesn't search for commas, which it would need to do to find "the shortest possible match within the string that starts with a comma".	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^5: Non-greedy substitution
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 18, 2024 at 01:34 UTC

I know. But you said you thought Ť,.+?$ť searches for "the shortest possible match within the string that starts with a comma". Since neither «,» nor «$» searches for the shortest possible anything (starting with a comma or otherwise), that means you though «.+?» did that. «.+?» doesn't search for commas, which it would need to do to find "the shortest possible match within the string that starts with a comma".

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