Thanks Nick, What I didn't know was that ^ inside brackets [] means "not". I was still
reading ^ as "beginning of string".
That will be very very useful in future.
Thanks
Pete
Nick Andrew wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:27:13PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
I don't really understand how the [^&] followed by the * works but it does.
"any character which is not an ampersand" repeated zero or more times.
So it matches
()
()&
(a)
(a)&
(aaa...)
(aaa...)&
Where the stuff inside () is what's being matched. The matched part stops
at the first & or the end of the string. It's greedy so it matches as long
a string as possible.
Nick.
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