Re^3: a regular expression question

brassbin:

As toolic mentioned, the .* construct is greedy and tries to get the longest match. If you turn it into .*?, it then looks for the shortest match. If you read the link he provided, you could verify that yourself.

...roboticus

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Re^4: a regular expression question by brassbin (Novice) on Dec 18, 2012 at 17:07 UTC
Thank you toolic, roboticus!	[reply]
Re^4: a regular expression question by brassbin (Novice) on Jan 29, 2013 at 14:29 UTC
i haven't figured out all the rules yet of posting, but i meant to say thank you for your help	[reply]
Re^4: a regular expression question by brassbin (Novice) on Dec 18, 2012 at 22:39 UTC
i don't know why a line that contains the words thank you doesn't show up	[reply]


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