From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 11:26:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E9837B503 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.253.85.160]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001002182627.ENFG19246.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:26:27 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e92IQI802273; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:26:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:26:17 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Christopher Rued Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl question Message-ID: <20001002192617.I252@parish> References: <14808.52583.347797.384055@chris.xsb.com> <20001002191537.G252@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001002191537.G252@parish>; from marko@freebsd.org on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:15:37PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:15:37PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > /a.?c.*d/; Doh, typo! That should read /a.*?c.*d/; BTW, your RE should have a ``*'' as well: /x.*?y/ -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message