[wellylug] Regex, replace stuff in command line help...
David Antliff
david.antliff at gmail.com
Thu Jun 29 11:01:07 NZST 2006
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Grant McLean wrote:
> Using '.*' in a Perl regex is frequently an error. I added the trailing
> '?' which causes it to find the first match rather than the longest.
While I left out any anchors because I don't know the full context, it
is my understanding that .*? will successfully match nothing. Not very
useful.
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David.
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