Re: Applying a regex to part of a string

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Your second match doesn't work for the string "hello world ....hello world". It'll match the first "hello world" and decide it's out of bounds, without seeing the second "hello world" within the bounds.

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Re^2: Applying a regex to part of a string by holdyourhorses (Monk) on Aug 19, 2005 at 07:23 UTC
I knew that my second method looked fishy, and now I know why, because it's wrong! Good catch. Thanks.	[reply]

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