Re: Strange regexp behavior

regular expressions are greedy. type
perldoc perlre /greed<enter>

perl -MLWP::Simple -e'getprint "http://parseerror.com/p"' |less

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Re: Re: Strange regexp behavior by aersoy (Scribe) on Mar 26, 2002 at 22:15 UTC
Yes, but this regexp is not bitten by that. It would be, if the author had used (").*\1 instead. If you write s/"[^"]+"/--/g then: "word1" "word2" "word1" "word2 "word1 "word2" will become -- -- -- "word2 --word2" -- Alper Ersoy	[reply]