Re: A Regular Expression Problem in Perl 5.28

On Mar 28, 2023, at 3:00 PM, Martin McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Uri Guttman <[email protected]> writes:
>> yes, but he kept the {5,} repeat count. so i just kept it too.
> 
> Now that I know how this works, I will probably change to
> {4,} as this would match 4 or more digits.  From reading the
> documentation, {4} means 4 and only 4.  {4,6} means 4 but nothing
> else except 6. {N,} means N as a low limit but any number higher.

\d{4,6} means match either 4, 5, or 6 successive number digits.

Here is the spec from perldoc perlretut:

    *   "a{n,m}" means: match at least "n" times, but not more than "m" times.


Jim Gibson
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