Patrick, Thanks for your help,
Howard On Wednesday, 16 March 2022 at 5:24:21 pm UTC-4 Patrick Woolsey wrote: > On 3/16/22 at 3:10 PM, [email protected] (Howard) wrote: > > >In *Find: ^(\d+?)\.1 *what is the purpose of the question mark? > >I know what *\d+* does. > > > > It makes matching "non-greedy", so the pattern won't try to > extend beyond the first possible match. > > > [For details, please see "Non-Greedy Quantifiers" in Chapter 8 > (page 201) of the ubiquitous PDF manual. :-) ] > > > Regards, > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/> > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/7c632049-7bfa-42fe-8580-b2545b40b513n%40googlegroups.com.
