the first ^ says start of
while
[^ ] - deals with a character class and since first says NOT space
and with the + following says to continue capturing non spaces until a space occurs
Wags ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: Naveen Parmar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 13:16
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Subject: Pattern matching
What is the purpose of using [^"] in the following expression:
s/^([^ ]+) +([^ ]+)/$2 $1/;
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