[RndTbl] Oh great RE master

Trevor Cordes trevor at tecnopolis.ca
Wed May 9 18:59:24 CDT 2007


On  9 May, Sean Walberg wrote:
> The * operator is greedy, in perl .*? probably would have worked, I'm
> not sure if that feature exists in sed.  Google around for
> "backtracking",

Sean beat me to it.  Perl's non-greedy *? is what you want.  Without it
you're taking the most left-most first.  I use perl's non-greedy
modifiers *all* the time.  Plus, perl let's you use \d instead of the
horrific posix [[:digit:]] syntax.



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