> On Mar 16, 2022, at 5:24 PM, Patrick Woolsey <pwool...@barebones.com> 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.
In this particular case, the ? doesn’t have actually have any effect — the
longest string of digits that is immediately followed by a dot is exactly the
same as the shortest
String of digits that is immediately followed by a dot, since a dot is not a
digit. But the non-greedy modifier can be essential when a repeated wild-card
pattern would otherwise match right over what is supposed to be the terminator.
Regards,
Neil Faiman
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