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in thread Regex infinite loop?

Okay, I think I get at least a part of what [^"]++ is doing. It is saying "match until you get to the next double quote." Is that correct?

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Re^7: Regex infinite loop?
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 18, 2008 at 00:02 UTC
    You have an extra +. YAPE::Regex::Explain
    #!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; use YAPE::Regex::Explain; print YAPE::Regex::Explain->new(qr~[^"]+~)->explain; __END__ The regular expression: (?-imsx:[^"]+) matches as follows: NODE EXPLANATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (?-imsx: group, but do not capture (case-sensitive) (with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not matching \n) (matching whitespace and # normally): ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [^"]+ any character except: '"' (1 or more times (matching the most amount possible)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ) end of grouping ----------------------------------------------------------------------