Python is to English as being mono-languaged is to
never meeting girls in Europe. Expand... It is worth
the effort...
Doug
--- Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> >> if ($text =~ /gecos: (.*?)/i) {
> >>
> >>
> >
> >The ? makes the regexp non-greedy so it matches the
> minimum number of
> >times possible... maybe it's matching null for
> some reason. get rid of
> >the question mark and it works, although i don't
> totally understand how
> >the greediness works. in this instance, i would
> probably use a word
> >boundary:
> >
> >if ($text =~ /gecos: (\w+)/i) {
> >
> >ray
> >
> >
>
>
>
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Doug Riddle
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