Re^2: Simple Regular Expression Help Needed

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Just as a side note here - that ? to make the match non-greedy. You have anchors at both ends (^ $), so greediness shouldn't come into play here. You actually do want to match as much as possible.

Yeah, I know. Really minor. :-)

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Re^3: Simple Regular Expression Help Needed by northwind (Hermit) on May 25, 2005 at 17:37 UTC
Yep, you're right. For whatever reason, I had non-backtracking patterns on the brain even though there is nothing in the regex that states it is non-backtracking... And the `$` shouldn't be there, it was a blind copy/paste from OP's code.	[reply]

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