Re^2: Greedy regexp matching: differences between man page and implementation?


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Re^2: Greedy regexp matching: differences between man page and implementation?

by perldeveloper (Scribe)

on Jul 08, 2004 at 13:47 UTC ( #372796=note: print w/replies, xml )

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This is an even more obvious:

$_='abcdefgh';
/^(a|abcdefg)(h|bc)/;
print "[$1] [$2]\n";
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It prints [a] [bc]. The regexp engine clearly doesn't run through all possible combinations within (..|..|..) patterns.

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