Ravi Malghan wrote:
I read up some docs on perlre. I know what .* does. But couldn't figure out what does .*? does.
That's also explained in "perldoc perlre". Look for "greedy" and "greediness" in the section "Quantifiers". (But it's unnecessary in this case IMO.)
Also in the variant you suggested what does [^)] inside the paranthesis do?
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