Thanks Chas .. I was wondering about the first regex str =~ m/m(.*i)(.*pi)/; did not match all the way till mississip. In fact my initial understanding was that the regex would match mississippi leaving nothing for second regex. Can you throw some light on this ..
On 5/31/07, Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/31/07, Sharan Basappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > $str =~ m/m(.*i?)(.*pi)/; snip ? only means non-greedy when following a * or a +. When it follows a pattern it means optional.
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