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Rorso
Wizard
Joined: 14 Oct 2000
Posts: 1368
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 Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:03 pm
Non greedy pattern matching
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Does anyone know if it is possible to make the perl patterns in zMUD non greedy?
Example:
pattern: a.*b
greedy example: acbdefb -> [acbdefb]
non greedy example: acbdefb -> [acb]defb
Where the characters between [] are matched. |
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Rorso
Wizard
Joined: 14 Oct 2000
Posts: 1368
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:07 pm
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Solved it myself. Sorry :P. Solution
pattern: a.*?b |
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