Patrick, Thanks for your help,
Howard On Wednesday, 16 March 2022 at 5:24:21 pm UTC-4 Patrick Woolsey wrote: > On 3/16/22 at 3:10 PM, leadwi...@gmail.com (Howard) wrote: > > >In *Find: ^(\d+?)\.1 *what is the purpose of the question mark? > >I know what *\d+* does. > > > > It makes matching "non-greedy", so the pattern won't try to > extend beyond the first possible match. > > > [For details, please see "Non-Greedy Quantifiers" in Chapter 8 > (page 201) of the ubiquitous PDF manual. :-) ] > > > Regards, > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/> > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/7c632049-7bfa-42fe-8580-b2545b40b513n%40googlegroups.com.
