From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-09-28T06:25:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression question

On 09/27/2009 08:45 PM, Jim Burgess wrote:
> Thanks for the comprehensive explanation. That helps me greatly.
> I am currently reading a ruby book (in German, just to make things a bit 
> simpler) and am on the reg ex chapter. It's hardcore!
> Thanks again.

Es gibt ja auch noch de.comp.lang.ruby. :-)

Btw, David you wrote

> In this particular case, the first + doesn't matter, because the
> pattern will keep going until it finds a space, so normal rules of
> (non-)greediness don't apply.

I believe you meant "the first ? doesn't matter" - as leaving out the 
"+" would indeed make a difference but it's the non greediness addition 
which does not make a difference to matching.

Kind regards

	robert

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