Search and Replace Regex

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Re: Search and Replace Regex by fokat (Deacon) on Aug 21, 2002 at 23:38 UTC
This is another answer: `my $wah = m/$([^$]+)\)/;` [download] See Common Regex Gotchas for information on why this is so. Regards. Edit: Apologies to dpuu for misreading the above node and thanks for pointing this out. Both forms have their pros and cons as discussed in Ovid, Long Live .*? (dot star question-mark).	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Search and Replace Regex by dpuu (Chaplain) on Aug 22, 2002 at 00:03 UTC
For which reason, specifically? AFAIK, the only difference is that `/X(.?)Y/` doesn't match newlines, whilst `/X([^Y])Y/` does. --Dave	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Search and Replace Regex by dpuu (Chaplain) on Aug 21, 2002 at 23:21 UTC
`$line =~ /$(.*?)$/ and $wah = $1` [download] --Dave Update: oops: I forgot the capturing parentheses	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Search and Replace Regex by fokat (Deacon) on Aug 21, 2002 at 23:38 UTC
This is another answer: `my $wah = m/\(([^\)]+)\)/;` [download] See Common Regex Gotchas for information on why this is so. Regards. Edit: Apologies to dpuu for misreading the above node and thanks for pointing this out. Both forms have their pros and cons as discussed in Ovid, Long Live .*? (dot star question-mark).	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Search and Replace Regex by dpuu (Chaplain) on Aug 22, 2002 at 00:03 UTC
For which reason, specifically? AFAIK, the only difference is that `/X(.?)Y/` doesn't match newlines, whilst `/X([^Y])Y/` does. --Dave	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Search and Replace Regex by dpuu (Chaplain) on Aug 21, 2002 at 23:21 UTC
`$line =~ /\((.*?)\)/ and $wah = $1` [download] --Dave Update: oops: I forgot the capturing parentheses	[reply] [d/l]