On Sunday 12 June 2005 23:03, Jean Delvare wrote: > > The 2nd and 4th parentheses are not counted with (?:...); they are > > used for grouping only. > > Your regular expression won't match this though. Two question marks > missing maybe? This would clear my original confusion. > > /^@@ -(\d+)(?:,(\d+))? \+(\d+)(?:,(\d+))? @@/
ah ... of course, yes ;) > And you should omit the first pair of parentheses too, as you don't use > the captured value anyway. That would make the RE more confusing I think. -- Andreas. _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
