Oops, it just looked like you were testing a literal. My mistake, I'll check it out.
--- "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/11/2004 10:28 PM, Stuart White wrote: > > > --- "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >>On 3/11/2004 9:01 PM, Stuart White wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I'm confused about greediness. > >>>This is the line that I'm trying to match: > >>> > >>>Spurs 94, Suns 82 > >> > >>If the line is as above, I probably wouldn't use a > >>regex. The following > >>is more verbose, but easier to manage IMHO. > > > > > > Unfortunately, that's just the line for this text > > file. The next file will have different numbers, > and > > different teams. That's why I was using a regex. > > The code I posted is not dependent on the team names > or numbers only the > format (which is no different than the requirement > on a regex). As long > as the format is: > > beg-of-line > one-or-more-spaces > team-1 > one-or-more-spaces > score-1 > 0-or-more-spaces > comma > 0-or-more-spaces > team-2 > one-or-more-spaces > score-2 > one-or-more-spaces > end-of-line > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> > <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>