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Re: Regex weirdness

I'm no regex expert by a long shot, but I believe that this behavior can be influenced by changing the 'greediness' of the match.

There are "Greedy quantifiers", "Reluctant quantifiers", and "Possessive quantifiers" according to the Pattern docs. I think you might be able to avoid the order dependancy by choosing a different type of quantifier.

On Apr 3, 2004, at 1:23 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:

But I believe the order has a direct bearing on your problem.

...
You have to match the LONGER expression first, otherwise the shorter one
will dominate.\

Greg's comments about case and whitespace are important as well, it's so easy to overlook unconventional, yet valid, tag formatting.


Scott
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