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From: Robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 09:27
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: Regular expression not working as expected
>>>>> This is correct, it's because you're saying "find two 'o' next to
each
other somewhere", with no other restrictions. In this example, you could
use:
/^fo{2}$/ which would only match "foo". Or perhaps:
/[^o]o{2}[^o]/ which would only return true if there were two 'o'
surrounded by anything other than 'o'. <<<<<
OK, that last example accomplishes what the tutorial IMPLIES ought to be
happening with {n}. It says that if you want n or MORE adjacent matches,
use {n,}. In my experimenting so far, {n}, {n,} {n,y} are all having
exactly the same effect, which is not what the tutorial suggests. O
well, I'm rewriting the thing anyway, so I guess I've found something I
need to correct.
daniel
Hope that helps you see what's going on.
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