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Re: perl 5.6.1 bug report
- To: <neillunn at gunz dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: perl 5.6.1 bug report
- From: e dot j dot pronk at philips dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:07:20 +0200
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
neillunn@gunz.com.au wrote:
> > > > > while ( $input =~ /(.*?)#/gsm ) {
> Actually it should be right in all perl 5.6.1 builds. Which leads me to say
> that I am actually not sure which one is the bug, but it is not a "cygwin"
> bug.
> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this but I thought (*?) with /s as
> a modifier would never match more than once. In fact, try the same string
> with no newlines and it should only match once.
This is from perlfaq6 - Regexes :
=====
I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
Here's code that finds everything between START and END in a paragraph:
undef $/; # read in whole file, not just one line or
paragraph
while ( <> ) {
while ( /START(.*?)END/sm ) { # /s makes . cross line boundaries
print "$1\n";
}
}
=====
Eddy
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