The ? is the opposite of greedy, just as in pcre/perl 5. Greedy is the default. I also don't see why you have a .* before f if you want to capture everything before the f.
On Friday, August 4, 2017, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I NEED TO BE GREEDY! HAHA HAHA <miniacle laughter continues>. > > Okay, I am back in control of myself (for the moment). > > What am I doing wrong here? > > perl6 -e 'my $x="a b c d e f"; $x ~~ m/.*?(c.*?).*f/; say "<$0>";' > <c> > > I am after > <c d e > > > I want the space at the end too > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
