stijnvs has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hello monks,
The perlre man page states:
By default, a quantified subpattern is "greedy", that is, it will match as many times as possible (given a particular starting location) while still allowing the rest of the pattern to match.
Hence, when trying the following simple program:
"abc" =~ /(a|ab)*(bc|c)/; print "$1 $2\n";
One would expect the output to be ab c. Executing the above program with Perl version 5.8.3 returns a bc however.
My question now is: which one is wrong, me, the man page or the implementation?
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