From: Erik Terpstra <erik@...>
Date: 2002-02-13T23:14:24+09:00
Subject: Re: simple XML parsing (greedy / non-greedy

> Thanks ... I see that that works. But I don't see why. Once the ? is in
> effect, does the whole regexp become non-greedy and quit on the first
> match? (This must be approximately the case, or it wouldn't be working.)
> 
> Anyway, thanks ... if I treat it as magic it'll work. 
> 
> What should I have read to know this? 

Zvon's Regular expression tutorial is very helpful:

http://zvon.org/other/PerlTutorial/Output/contents.html

Or more specific:

http://zvon.org/other/PerlTutorial/Output/example13.html