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Re: Help on using alternation grouping star versus dot star.by Abigail (Deacon) |
| on Jun 10, 2001 at 17:17 UTC ( [id://87287]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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In Friedls book Mastering Regular Expressions this technique
is called loop unrolling. Your second example is bad because of the
nested * - Perl should warn you about them.
I would write it as:
-- Abigail
In Section
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