Perl Regular Expressions: Difference between revisions
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Perl's [[Regular Expressions Concepts#Flavor|flavor]] of regular expressions is relatively similar to [[Grep Regular Expressions#Overview|grep's]], but it has a richer set of metacharacters. | Perl's [[Regular Expressions Concepts#Flavor|flavor]] of regular expressions is relatively similar to [[Grep Regular Expressions#Overview|grep's]], but it has a richer set of [[Regular Expressions Concepts#Metacharacters| metacharacters]]. | ||
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Latest revision as of 03:45, 30 July 2017
External
- http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/perl/regexp.html
- http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/perl/course.html#greedy
Internal
Overview
Perl's flavor of regular expressions is relatively similar to grep's, but it has a richer set of metacharacters.
Greedy/Reluctant
By default, the regular expressions are greedy.
To make then reluctant, use "*?".