Re^2: regex for string

ya its working fine thank you. why it is not working to giving like this

$str=~m/^(.?).*(.?)$/
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Re^3: regex for string by arkturuz (Curate) on Aug 18, 2009 at 09:36 UTC
It won't match what you want because the '' quantifier is greedy, and the '?' can match 0 or 1 times. So, the '' matches all of the it can, and the last '?' matches 0 times; so the match is successful. You have to force '*' to give something back to the rest of the regex by replacing '?' with '{1}' for example.	[reply]
Re^4: regex for string by saranperl (Initiate) on Aug 18, 2009 at 11:06 UTC
good explaination... thanks	[reply]


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