Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xmlschema-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - block="substitution" >Thread Next - DocFlex/XSD - a new template-driven XML Schema documentation generator Re: regex helpTo: xmlschema-dev@--.--- Date: 1/18/2007 5:01:00 PM Just a note on the greediness mentioned here... My understanding is that the greediness of a regular expression is only an issue when you are capturing the values of sub-patterns within the target data. (e.g. in Perl 'ML123' =~ /ML(\d+)/; captures 123 into $1.) When only doing matching, eventually, if possible, the pattern will be matched irrespective of whether greedy or non-greedy matching is used. Greediness just affects whether the regular expression engine attempts to grab lots of content for a sub-expression in it's first attempt and them back track, or attempts to capture the minimal amount in its first attempt and then forward track (not sure if that's a proper term!). If anyone's opinion differs, please let me know From mike@s... Mon Jan 22 00:00:48 2007 Received: from lisa | ||||||
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