Yup! Thanks,
-Nilanjan -----Original Message----- From: Kripa Sundar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 6:22 PM To: Palit, Nilanjan Cc: Boston.PM Mongers Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Perl RE: first occurrence of a pattern? Dear Nilanjan, > If I used a RE like the following: > > $dir =~ m,^(.*)/($fruits)/,; > > I get a greedy match, upto & including the last occurrence. Is there a > RE to get the path up to the first occurrence of any one of the > alternatives? Doesn't non-greedy quantification solve your problem? > $dir =~ m,^(.*?)/($fruits)/,; Or have I mis-understood the problem? peace, || Udayachal: a newspaper edited by slum children: --{kr.pA} || http://tinyurl.com/57jaf -- This .sig intentionally left blank. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
