Wild card searches

[Mark Brownell]

On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 03:35  PM, Alex Rice wrote:

> You get "apple xxxxx" because the regex I wrote is greedy. You could 
> modify the regex so it's not greedy. (I think "greedy" is the term 
> they use, but not sure)
>
> "![^!/]+/!"

> AHA! That works. So... I guess replaceText() replaces all matches by 
> default, which is why it doesn't understand the "(?g)" global 
> substitution modifier- it doesn't need to!
>
> Everyone should learn Perl regular expressions :-) It's well worth the 
> trouble!
>
> Alex Rice

Alex,

This regEx stuff is very cool. Now I have a new area of optimizations 
for my pull-parser experiments.

Thanks,

Mark
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