Re: Perl 5's "non-greedy" matching can be TOO greedy!

[Tom Christiansen]

>That would be a strange regexp, but I never suggested it.  I suggested the
>regexp /b.*?d/ and pointed out that I believe "bccccd" is a more intuitive
>match than "bbbbccccd".  That was the matching text, not the regexp, sorry
>if I didn't make that clear.

Fine.  What you said is 

    first
        find a b
    then 
        find any non-newline, repeated 0 to N times
    then 
        find a d

What part of "first find a b" do you expect a randomizing solution to?
That's very clear.

--tom