>What is "Robert's Perl Tutorial"? A good perl tutorial that I heard of on this list after lurking for awhile. I believe the link is http://www.sthomas.net/roberts-perl-tutorial.htm
>What don't you understand? Why they capture what they do? >They all capture the leftmost, longest substring matching the >pattern. >An regex like /<*/ will *always* match at the beginning of the >string, since '*' means "zero or more of the preceding item". >So this regex will only capture <'s if they appear at the beginning >of the string. Perhaps that's what "Robert" is trying to illustrate. >The regex /<*>/ won't necessarily match at the beginning, because >the zero or more <'s must be followed by one > char. I got it now, thanks for the reply. joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
