On Sunday, June 9, 2002, at 05:57 , Tor Hildrum wrote: [..] > $target=~s/\(.+?\)//gi; > > print "$target\n"; > > [localhost:~/Programming/Perl/Various code] tor% ./greedy > micheal john > [localhost:~/Programming/Perl/Various code] tor% > > This does however produce 2 spaces between the two names. So, you might > also > want to match the extra space before or after the parentheses. [..]
My complements on the effective use of '?' - I'm still finding out where that works to do which.... So I have put together a couple of variations on a theme at: http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/RegEx/greedyVnotgreedy.txt I fear folks leap too quickly to using a '.+' to grab anything rather than taking he time to buy the perl 5 pocket reference and getting in touch with their inner regular expressions.... ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
