Re: Re: Removing only the first instance with RegEx

For the most part I understand what it's doing, but could you explain the '*' in the RegEx?

Thanks

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Re: Removing only the first instance with RegEx by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Nov 06, 2003 at 14:29 UTC
For the most part I understand what it's doing, but could you explain the '' in the RegEx? Fascinating. You understand compiled regular expressions, delayed regular expressions, $&, but not '', one of the most used special tokens in a regular expression? Anyway, as 'man perlre' could have told you, '*' means that the thing in front of it can be matched zero or more times. Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: Removing only the first instance with RegEx by Anonymous Monk on Nov 06, 2003 at 14:33 UTC
Wow...it's too early in the AM. I did know what'*' (zero or more) and '+' (one or more) mean. sorry!	[reply]