Watching you guys go round and round about perl reminds me why I use
Python as my preferred language. :-)
Shannon
-ray wrote:
>On 20 Aug 2003, Wade wrote:
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>> if ($text =~ /gecos: (.*?)/i) {
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>The ? makes the regexp non-greedy so it matches the minimum number of
>times possible... maybe it's matching null for some reason. get rid of
>the question mark and it works, although i don't totally understand how
>the greediness works. in this instance, i would probably use a word
>boundary:
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>if ($text =~ /gecos: (\w+)/i) {
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>ray
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