Re: RE question

[Reza Naima <reza.reza@net>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 04:03:52PM -0800, Dan Haskovec sent me this...
> $foo =~ m|/\*[^*/]*\*/|;

are you sure you can put multiple things in the [^], from my understanding,
it will match anything but any of those characaters..  so if you have a * or
/, it will stop at that point -- not when it seems both..  not sure about
this though.

> 
> Also look at the concept of "greedy matching," can't remember the operator
> for that exactly. That way you could just match the first close comment.

you want to use ?, the non-greedy modifier operator.

also, for your original example, use x -- it makes things a lot easier to
read... i.e.

                        m!^(\S+)\s      # HOST
                           (\S+)\s          # LOGNAME
                           (\S+)\s          # REMOTESUER
                           \[([^\]]+)\]\s   # TIME
                           \"([^\"]+)\"\s   # REQUEST "
                           (\S+)\s          # STATUS
                           (\S+)\s          # BYTES
                           (\S+)\s          # REFER
                           (.*)$!x

guess what thst's for

--reza


> 
> dan
> 
> 
> On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Doug Shea wrote:
> 
> >     So what I'm getting at here, I want to match an open comment ("/*"),
> > then anything that DOESN'T include an open comment, then a close comment
> > ("*/"). I think that'll do it, but I don't know how to specify an RE
> > that means "anything that doesn't include"...