On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 12:29 AM, Todd Chester <toddandma...@zoho.com
<mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote:
On 01/18/2018 05:17 PM, mimosinnet wrote:
The '?' is not necessary
Indeed!
I use `.*?` when I do not want the wild card to be
"greedy"
When I have a choice of using either, I always use
`.*?` so I remember the difference and as a kind
of comment that tells me not to be greedy.
Thank you!
-T
"greedy" always cracks me up when I see it. Daffy Duck
comes to mind, shouting "Mine! Mine! Mine!"
On 01/22/2018 03:37 PM, Andy Bach wrote:
>> it will match the first chunk of stuff that is followed by whatever
is after it (so, "/....*?/" the "?" is certainly unneeded
> I use `.*?` when I do not want the wild card to be "greedy"
Right, but using it as the a modifier of the last "*" of an RE when it's
not involved in a capture makes it useless
/(st..).*?/
/(st..).*/
are effectively identical and both work the same (for what matters, what
ends up in $1) as
/(st..)/
> Daffy Duck comes to mind, shouting "Mine! Mine! Mine!"
Stomping on Bugs (and later, the appearing jenie) - "Down! Down! Down!
In! In! In" in Ali Baba Bunny, I think. 'course when he beats up Taz
over a dollar he says something like that.
Thank you!
