Re: [SLUG] (non) greediness in regexp ...

[Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 04:43:06PM +1000, Mikolaj J. Habryn (dichro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 04:30:30PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> >  ".*@.*"
> > I want to match only the last quoted string eg ".*@.*
> > where the " is the last before the @
> 
>   "[^"]*@[^"]*"

You win :-))

Could you explain? I did some reading (I have Jeffrey Friedl's RegExp book)
but dont understand how your regexp works.

thanks
jobst



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