sunmaz:

Update: Obviously, I should've tested my theory before shooting off my mouth. ww gave it a try (nice catch!) and didn't see the problem, when I tried, I couldn't reproduce either.

The problem is that you're asking for "one or more one or more digits". You either mean one or more digits, or one or more digits followed by a '+':

/(\d+\.\d+)/oi;     # One or more digits
/(\d+\+\.\d+\+)/oi; # One or more digits with '+'

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Since you mention greediness, you might mean to not take too many items from the string. However, since you're taking only digits and have a literal '.' between them, I don't know what you'd really mean. (\d+? doesn't make any sense, unless it were something like \d+?7, for example.)

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re: Perl Complains of Nested Quantifiers by roboticus
in thread Perl Complains of Nested Quantifiers by sunmaz

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