On Mon, October 16, 2006 2:54 pm, Chrome wrote: > *edit* sorry I didn't think and just hit reply on this instead of > reply > all... sorry Richard */edit* > > [snip] > .*? is kinda silly -- .* mean "0 or more characters", and ? means > "maybe" > but putting them together has no added value, so lose the ? > [/snip] > > I could be wrong (and under the considerable knowledge of Richard I > certainly feel it :) ) but doesn't the ? after a quantifier signify > that > preceding pattern is to be taken as ungreedy? You're right; I'm wrong. I'm not PCRE expert. Took me 20 years to be able to stumble through the simplest expressions. ? means "maybe" in some other place in PCRE. Or maybe that's POSIX. Never have figured that one out. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
