From: "Marcin Mielżyński" <lopx@...>
Date: 2008-01-08T02:49:59+09:00
Subject: Re: rexular expression quantifiers

Robert Klemme pisze:
> 2008/1/7, Johnathan Smith <stu_09@hotmail.com>:
>> just a quick question
>>
>> what is the difference between greedy and non greedy quantifiers?
> 
> The greediness.
> 
> Seriously: why don't you just try it out in IRB?
> 
> s=("a"*10 + "b")
> s+=s
> s.scan /\w+b/
> s.scan /\w+?b/
> 

There's also possessive one (doesn't backtrack)
ruby 1.9 or jruby 1.1 (trunk)

irb(main):011:0> "aa" =~ /a++a/
=> nil


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