> "Ben is [a-zA-Z ]*?\."
: > would work in MX. Note the ? after the asterisk. it says get all of a-z
: > but only as many as needed to fulfill the requirements. Be
: stingy. But its
: > still doing more comparisons. If the character an a? a b? a c? etc.
:
: Is the ? in that string part of an attempt on MM's part to not make people
: have to rewrite their existing expressions, or is that just the way it
: works?
Hmm. That's the way it works in Perl, and in the latest regex RFC spec
IIRC.
I'm not sure what you mean by "make people have to rewrite their existing
expressions" though. I never worked with earlier versions of CF, so I don't
know if earlier versions of the RegEx parser weren't greedy, but that'd be
unusual.
--Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software
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