Re: RE question

[Bobby Kleemann <neta.rkleeman@com>]

You could reverse the string, do the un-greedy match, then reverse the
result.

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 Bobby Kleemann <neta.rkleeman@com>
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On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Doug Shea wrote:

> 
> 
> --- 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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