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Re: Problem with regex wildcard operator (.)...?by BillKSmith (Monsignor) |
| on Sep 06, 2021 at 03:37 UTC ( [id://11136490]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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Your misunderstanding has nothing to do with the metacharacter '.', but rather with the quantifier '?'. When a character (or metacharacter) in your regex matches zero times, you will reach the end of the regex before you have matched all the characters in the string. Your 'end-of-string' anchor '$' fails.
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