RE: [PHP] Regular expressions

>On 10/16/06, Chrome <admin@chrome.me.uk> wrote: >> [snip] >> ? means "maybe" in some other place in PCRE. Or maybe that's POSIX. >> Never have figured that one out. >> [/snip] >> >> ? directly after an expression is equivalent to {0,1} (maybe) but >> after a quantifier (*, +, {}) means ungreedy > >I kind of talked about this in the reply to richard the .*? is exactly >the same as doing .*(?U) > >an inline modifier to the previous expression. > >That makes me wonder.. according to the docs U inverts greediness, if >you have... >/foo.*?bar/U > >does that make .*? a greedy .* > >Curt. Good point... I suppose it would... I'm not au fait with greediness in honesty... I just remember the syntax Strange really because I'm arguing with a regex at the minute lol Dan -- http://chrome.me.uk