Re: Perl 5's "non-greedy" matching can be TOO greedy!

[email protected] (Nathan Torkington) Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:25:51 -0700 (MST)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.regex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jarkko Hietaniemi writes:
> Couldn't the be an option (a modifier) to do this?  Then if someone
> asks to wait until all the electrons spin down, so be it...

Only if we can get MjD's wordy regex modifiers:

  /a.*?b/{heatdeath}

Nat :-)