Re: Regex: not the trailing whitespace

in reply to Regex: not the trailing whitespace

Just rely on greedy and non-greedy matching to eat up all the spaces where appropriate. Don't need any special new features, or even any additional boundary conditions:

my ($prefix, $content) = $line =~ /
   ^
   \s*
   ([*#]+:?)
   \s*
   (.*?)
   \s*
   $
/x
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Re^2: Regex: not the trailing whitespace by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Apr 23, 2011 at 06:51 UTC
I see. I don't remember exactly what I was thinking, but I suppose using a \S helps it optimize. OTOH, it might make it harder for the engine to understand. I should try some benchmarks with and without.	[reply]

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