Bryan C. Warnock: # On Sunday 25 November 2001 11:09 pm, Brent Dax wrote: # > Not exactly. <my belief in how this works cut> # > It finds the 'a', then the 'abc', then tries the match. My mistake. # > Still, that's a hell of a lot more intelligent than just 'proceeding # > dumbly left-to-right'. # # It shows up better if you throw in some failures first. # <his destruction of my belief cut> # # And proceeds, dumbly, left to right.
Oh, okay. I feel stupid now. So what does that thing at regcomp.c(1853) in bleadperl (probably about the same place in older versions) do? --Brent Dax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Configure pumpking for Perl 6 "Nothing important happened today." --George III of England's diary entry for 4-Jul-1776