RE: Regular expressions

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>On 10/16/06, Chrome <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [snip]
>> ? means "maybe" in some other place in PCRE.  Or maybe that's POSIX.
>> Never have figured that one out.
>> [/snip]
>>
>> ? directly after an expression is equivalent to {0,1} (maybe) but
>> after a quantifier (*, +, {}) means ungreedy
>
>I kind of talked about this in the reply to richard the .*? is exactly
>the same as doing .*(?U)
>
>an inline modifier to the previous expression.
>
>That makes me wonder.. according to the docs U inverts greediness, if
>you have...
>/foo.*?bar/U
>
>does that make .*? a greedy .*
>
>Curt.

Good point... I suppose it would... I'm not au fait with greediness in
honesty... I just remember the syntax

Strange really because I'm arguing with a regex at the minute lol

Dan

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