Re: Is there any other way to avoid greedy matching

David.. My basic idea is to see if the string has exactly two digits or not. One solution which i thought is if(^\d\d$); But is there any other way??

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Re^2: Is there any other way to avoid greedy matching by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 24, 2007 at 04:35 UTC
`/^\d\d$/` will also allow a trailing newline. `/^\d\d\z/` checks if the string contains exactly two digits and nothing else Yes, there are other ways, but they are more complicated.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Is there any other way to avoid greedy matching by erroneousBollock (Curate) on Sep 24, 2007 at 03:48 UTC
If you've already verified that the string contains no non-digit characters, it's a simple as `/^\d{2}$/` Otherwise, something like this might work: `scalar(() = $foo =~ /(\d)/g) == 2` -David Update: Wow, what was I smoking?	[reply] [d/l] [select]