Re: Regex-Fu

2015-05-25 Thread novice2 via Digitalmars-d-learn
I cannot get the longest possible it match longest for first group ([a-z]+) try ^([a-z]+?)(hula|ula)$

Re: Regex-Fu

2015-05-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 25 May 2015 at 11:20:46 UTC, novice2 wrote: I cannot get the longest possible it match longest for first group ([a-z]+) try ^([a-z]+?)(hula|ula)$ Namespace, novice2: Ah, I see. The problem was with the first group that was too greedy, not with the second. I was focusing on the

Re: Regex-Fu

2015-05-25 Thread Namespace via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 25 May 2015 at 11:11:50 UTC, Chris wrote: I'm a bit at a loss here. I cannot get the longest possible match. I tried several versions with eager operators and stuff, but D's regex engine(s) always seem to return the shortest match. Is there something embarrassingly simple I'm