On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:50:08PM -0600, Doug McNutt wrote: > These are so much fun... > > [ \t]*?\t[ \t]* > > any number of spaces or tabs, including none of them, followed, without being > greedy, by a required tab and some more spaces or tabs. > > whonoze? All regular expressions are experimental and they often depend on > the software reading them. > > I worry about possibly making the second [ \t] not greedy. Ask Larry???
If you make the last thing in a regular expression non-greedy, then it will always match nothing (in the case of *? or ??) or only once (in the case of +?). For example, if you have the text: aaaaabbbbb And you search for: a+b*? Then it will match 'aaaaa'. Ronald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
