Thanks nobul
On 31 May 2007 05:43:07 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On May 31, 11:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sharan Basappa) wrote:
> I seem to be having some conceptual problem with greedy quantifiers ..
> My understanding is that it matches as much as follows while still
> allowing rest of the regex to match.
Yes. That is correct.
> $str = mississippi;
> $str =~ m/m(.*i)(.*pi)/;
> I expected first regex (.*i) to match till
> ississip
No the subpattern (.*i) can't match 'ississip' because the last
character of 'ississip' is not 'i'.
You seem to have forgotten the ' while still allowing rest of the
regex to match' bit.
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