I seem to be having some conceptual problem with greedy quantifiers .. My understanding is that it matches as much as follows while still allowing rest of the regex to match. But look at the following example : $str = mississippi; $str =~ m/m(.*i)(.*pi)/; print "one is $1 \n"; print "two is $2 \n";
$str = mississippi; $str =~ m/m(.*i?)(.*pi)/; print "one is $1 \n"; print "two is $2 \n"; In the first code snippet, I expected first regex (.*i) to match till ississip and leave pi for (.*pi) regex. But what I get as the output of this script is : one is ississi two is ppi one is ississip two is pi Why is that perl is leaving ppi to second regex while it can continue till first p in ppi and can still get the second regex to get a match ? Thanks, Sharan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
