Re^2: Something is wrong with this pattern

As a general comment: .+? at the start or end of a regex will never match anything

False:

$ perl -wE '"abcdef" =~ /(.+?)f/ and say $1'
abcde
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Remember, "left-most match" trumps "shortest match".

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Re^3: Something is wrong with this pattern by GrandFather (Saint) on Dec 24, 2010 at 21:42 UTC
Sigh, yes you are quite right and I didn't remember. Can we blame it on too much pre-Christmas cheer? Merry Christmas. ;) True laziness is hard work	[reply]