Posted by Rik on 06/10/06 00:55

Tim wrote:
> Yeah thats it.
>
> (.+)\s{2}
>
> Is a greedy match, it will match to the last two spaces it finds and
> not the first.
> Adding a ? after the brackets make it a non greedy match.
>
> (.+)?\s{2}


Good explanation, totally correct, but nort the right regex:
(.+)?\s{2}
means:
(A random character 1 or mor times) zero or once.

explanation was good, regex should be:

(.+?)\s{2}

As I've learned, correct me if I'm wrong, the ? to make a selector
non-greedy should be directly after the selector itself AFAIK.

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus

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