Re: [q-lang-users] regex

[Keith T. <kaz...@ea...>]

 
Hello Eddie -- 

--- ed...@ri... wrote:
- I cannot find in the manual and GNU Regex manual
- how to do a nongreedy match.

>From the resource of resources (Wikipedia) wrt. (modern) POSIX regexp:

[1] "modern regular expression tools allow a quantifier to be specified as non-greedy, by putting a question mark after the quantifier";

and more specifically,

[2] ? Match the last "block" zero or one times - "ba?" matches "b" or "ba".

HTH!


Albert: I AGREE with John: PCRE over POSIX regexp IS the way to go. =)

It is also worth noting that the switch to PCRE will bring Q another step closer to mainstream scripting languages. IMHO this is a GOOD THING. ;-)

Cheers,
Keith