Thank you all! I figured it out! Jim 2010/1/18 Alexander Koenig <alexander.koe...@mpi.nl>: > Hi Jim, > > Jim Green wrote on 01/17/2010 05:25 PM: >> my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; >> (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! >> >> after substitution $basename is supposed to be >> perl >> >> but why it is not /local/bin/perl? will .*/ matches longest possible string? > > Yes it will match the longest possible string. > To understand how this works (and how to avoid this behaviour if you > don't want it) look into the concept of "greedy" regular expressions. > For example here http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html > > bye > Alex > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
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