Hello Monks,

Can any one please explain me the below code ? Isn't the minimal quantifier(.*?) in this case be supposed to match 'I have ' for the first capture and then from number 2 till end of the string for second capture $2 . The O/p returns nothing for $1 and $2 .

Here is my code 


#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
###############

my $str = "I have 2 numbers: 53147";

my @pats = qw {
        (.*?)(\d*)
    };

foreach my $pat (@pats) {
    printf "%-12s ", $pat;
    if ( $str =~ /$pat/ ) {
        print "<$1> <$2>\n";
    } else {
        print "FAIL\n";
    }
}

[download]

$ ./regex.pl

(.*?)(\d*) <> <>

In reply to Regex Minimal Quantifiers by pr33

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