On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 10:39 +0900, Dave M G wrote: > Robert, > > Thank you for replying. > > > > Check out the greediness modifier. Greediness determines whether it > > extends the matching to the largest possible match or the smallest > > possible match. By default regexes are greedy. > > By "greediness modifier", do you mean the preg_set_match, the > preg_set_order, and preg_pattern_order arguments? > > The documentation on the PHP site does mention the term "greedy", but to > me it's not very clear about explaining which modifiers are responsible > for which behaviour. > > I've experimented with each, and to me it seems like they all behave the > same, so perhaps "greediness" is determined by some other modifier?
RTFM ;) http://ca.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php Search for greedy or more specifically ungreedy :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
