regex question

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Fri Dec 2 12:00:17 EST 2005


Jim-

Friday, December 2, 2005, 12:40:46 AM, you wrote:

> Correct, Mark.  If you happen to use BBEdit, their docs cover the use of the
> '?' to mean ungreedy for that *location* in the RegEx expression. Beware
> that the '?' used this way can give unexpected results.  It is less
> consistent than using 'U' and applying it to the whole expression
> As always, test before trusting.

Thanks for that. I've used the "?" qualifier before in regex, but
never in quite this situation (as a qualifier of an already-qualified
string as a matchChunk selector).

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net




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