[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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