On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 16:12:59 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 16:05:16 +0000, seany wrote:
obviously there are ways like counting the match length, and
then using
the maximum length, instead of breaking as soon as a match is
found.
Are there any other better ways?
You're not really using regexes properly. You want to greedily
match as
much as possible in this case, e.g.:
void main()
{
import std.regex;
auto re = regex("ab(cd)?");
assert("PREabcdPOST".matchFirst(re).hit == "abcd");
assert("PREabPOST".matchFirst(re).hit == "ab");
}
thing is, abcd is read from a file, and in the compile time, i
dont know if cd may at all be there or not, ir if it should be
ab(ef)
