in reply to Matching numbers by regex.

What was the purpose of \d*\d+ in the regex?
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Re^2: Matching numbers by regex.
by Wasted (Initiate) on Apr 20, 2006 at 07:54 UTC
    I thought that it behaved the opposite to greedy. just the \d+ was there but only matching the last digit.
    So I thought I could force it to accept the first digit of the last number by adding a \d*.
    That didn't work so I came here for help, I'm new to this whole regexp business.
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