Re: did I get greedy quantifiers wrong ?

On 5/31/07, Chas Owens <chas.owens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 5/31/07, Sharan Basappa <sharan.basappa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
snip
> $str =~ m/m(.*i?)(.*pi)/;
snip

? only means non-greedy when following a * or a +. When it follows a
pattern it means optional.


Oh, and it makes the generalized* versions non-greedy as well.


*{n}, {n,}, and {n, m}
.

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