Re: Ideas to improve this regexp?

Your regex does match the empty string, which it should not from your descriptions. So remove the |^$ part.

You can also write your regex as /\A(?>\s*)\D/, where (?>\s*) means grab all whitespaces and don't give them up for backtracking.

I don't know if you consider that more simple or elegant, though.

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Re^2: Ideas to improve this regexp? by rovf (Priest) on Nov 03, 2009 at 14:17 UTC
Your regex does match the empty string, which it should not from your descriptions. My mistake in wording the question. I've updated the post. I like your alternative suggestion too, but as you already suspected, it is not much simpler anyway. -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l]