Re: What does it mean Nested quantifiers in regex

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Re^2: What does it mean Nested quantifiers in regex by salva (Canon) on Aug 24, 2010 at 06:40 UTC
... and the `quotemeta` operator can also help when interpolating variables that may contain special characters into regular expressions.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: What does it mean Nested quantifiers in regex by anakin30 (Acolyte) on Aug 24, 2010 at 07:05 UTC
So if i changed the (m/^de.e++ ) plus sign to \+\+ it can work is it?	[reply]
Re^3: What does it mean Nested quantifiers in regex by jethro (Monsignor) on Aug 24, 2010 at 10:02 UTC
Yes, but it depends on what you want to parse with that regex. If you want to parse exactly the string "de.c++issues", then you need the regex `de\.c\+\+issues`. Note that I also escaped the '.' as that is a special char in regexes as well. (Escaping is the method of removing the specialness of special characters by putting a '\' in front of them) Or as salva propossed, you could write `\Qde.c++issues\E`, that would automatically escape all special characters between \Q and \E. This is probably the better way as you don't seem to know much abouts regexes and there are a lot more special characters	[reply] [d/l] [select]