[Mono-list] RegExp Bug ...

[Hans-Jürgen Schönig]

Piers Haken wrote:

>Mono bug aside...
>
>"d*.y" matches any number of 'd's followed by any character followed by
>y.
>
>"d.*y" matches d followed by any number of any character followed by y.
>
>But '*' is greedy, so in your example it would match "day Bloody Sunday"
>
>May be you want "d.*?y"
>
>I _believe_  perl works in the same way, in fact the .NET RegExs are
>supposed to pretty close to the perl 5 ones.
>
>Piers.
>
>  
>

I wanted d.*y or something like that but it didn't work.
i got just one match although I expected three matches.
i have done so much regular expression work with perl but c# seems to be 
strange in a way.

    Hans



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