Re: matching patterns - - - EXPLANATION

2003-04-04 Thread R. Joseph Newton
"R. Joseph Newton" wrote: Sorry Diego, Turns out that there was a logic error in the code I posted that gave a false positive on the match. > #!perl -w > > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $pat1 = qr /Hi.*?\sBye/; > # my $pat2 = qr /(Hi|[Hh]ello).*?\sBye--I'll sure miss you\!/; # Error Th

Re: matching patterns - - - EXPLANATION

2003-04-03 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Diego Riano wrote: > I am trying to put it in a better way, (I hope :-)) > > What I am trying to do is check if two patterns could recognize the same > string, for example: > $pattern1=[ag]oprs[cd]x9; > $pattern2=[agpr]oprs; > > these two patterns would recognize, both, a set of strings. howe

Re: matching patterns - - - EXPLANATION

2003-04-03 Thread Diego Riano
I am trying to put it in a better way, (I hope :-)) What I am trying to do is check if two patterns could recognize the same string, for example: $pattern1=[ag]oprs[cd]x9; $pattern2=[agpr]oprs; these two patterns would recognize, both, a set of strings. however there will be some strings tha