--- Martin Weinless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> take the regexp '.n+..?.?v*.'
>
> By all that is sacred, if we use the string 'supernova', there should
> be no match since there are too many characters before the 'n'
Not true.
. matches the r in supernova
n+ matches one or more n's, so it matches the n in supernova
. matches the o in supervova
.? matches one or no characters, so it matches nothing
(successfully, twice)
v* matches any number of v's, including zero,
so it matches the v in supernova
. matches the a in supernova.
You didn't say '^.n+..?.?v*.', so the . in front of the n matches the
r, and has no complaints about all the characters in front of it.
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