Jay Savage wrote: > On 4/14/06, JupiterHost.Net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>Timothy Johnson wrote: >>>Will the string always have the two quotes in the same place and only >>>one per string? What about something like this? >>> >>>/.*?\{([^\}]*)\}(?=.*")/gi >>I tested it out and it appears to be perect! Thank Mr. Johnson :) >> >>I love when I learn a new tidbit! > > A couple of things here. > > * You're not matching anything alphabetic here, so the "i" modifier is > superfluous. > * Using "^" in a class to limit a search is usually less efficient > than doing a 'non-greedy" search. > * Curly braces aren't metacharacters. they only need to be escaped > when they could be mistaken for range delimiters. > > If you're going through a few thousand iterations, you'll be happier > with something like: > > /.*?{(\.*?)}(?=.*")/go
The /o modifier only applies if you have variables in the regular expression. perldoc -q /o The .*? at the beginning is superfluous. You have a backslash in front of the '.' character which means you want to match only a literal '.' character. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>