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Re: RE question



--- Reza Naima <reza.reza@net> wrote:
> well, this kinda works..
> 
> $_ = 'comment /* this is a * test dumbass /* */ foo */';
> 
> m[/\*(.*?)\*/];
> print "$1\n";
> 

    Syntactic differences aside, that's exactly what I already have...

/(\\\*.*?\*\\)/

    That's the one that matches from the beginning of the first comment
to the end of the last comment before the rest of the pattern. The
un-greedy-ness doesn't help, in this case; there's no way to make it
BACKWARDS-un-greedy, only FORWARDS un-greedy.

===

Doug

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