PERL Beginners - Re: AW: Regexp match question !

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Re: AW: Regexp match question !

Daniel Stellwagen

2004-03-31, 3:34 am

Schell, Holger wrote:

> Hi,
> Maybe not the best solution but try something like this
> \b[0-9]\b
> Means that there are boundaries before and after and in the middle should be a one digitnumber
> \b\d\b
> works similar.
> ? is searching step by step, so this means:
> $number = 11;
> it starts with searching for a digit or nothing, that is true cause in front of 11 there is no digit, so your regex will be true.
>
> Start to search in the net with important things like:
> Greedy, nongreedy (very important)

Thanks for the speedy answer!

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