Perl Regular Expressions

External

• http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/perl/regexp.html
• http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/perl/course.html#greedy

Internal

• Regular Expressions

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 "*?".