On Thursday 15 Jul 2010 09:51:32 Chandan Kumar wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I have query over quantifiers.
>
> Could you please explain the combination of operators Question mark
> (?),dot(.),star(*),plus(+).
> Say this is my string:
>
> $_ = " thiiiiis is my first pattern ,quite confused with quantifiers"
>
> ex: (thi.*?) or (thi.+?) etc
>
".*?" is non-greedy ".*" and ".+?" is non-greedy ".+". See the perldocs for
more information. They are not equivalent to "*" followed by "?" or "+"
followed by "?".
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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