On Mar 17, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Kent Johnson wrote:
The first one matches the space after 'in'. Without it the .+? will match the single space, then \b matches the *start* of the next word.
I think I understand. Basically the first dot advances the pattern forward in order to perform a non-greedy match on the following word.(?) Very nice.
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