On Monday 25 June 2001 09:27, Richard Lynch wrote:
> That's because POSIX is greedy. Or Perl is greedy. Whatever.
Perl is greedy. It *should* have worked with eregi...
> > <body.*>
> >
> > Unfortunately it matches everything from the body tag onwards and
> > doesn't stop at the greater-than sign. It should be simple thing but
> > I'm stumped!
Greedy means: it tries to match as much as possible. In your case it
matches "<body" and then everything up to, and including, "</html>" - a
string starting with "<body" and ending with ">" :)
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This is JohnC IMHO, I compaired tri-word groupings here and in his plan
and got a good match.
- /. posting discussing the likelihood that an AC post that claimed to be
posted by John Carmack during his honeymoon (and having the login info at
home) was actually from him.
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