in reply to Re^3: String Matching
in thread String Matching

Um, they start from the left, stop when they find a match -- that is clever

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Re^5: String Matching
by frozenwithjoy (Priest) on Aug 15, 2012 at 15:31 UTC
    And predictable! I'd hate to regex in a world that wasn't predictable.