I’m trying to split up a string into two parts using regex. The string is formatted as follows: text to extract<number> I’ve been using (.*?)< and <(.*?)> which work fine but after reading into regex a little, I’ve just started to wonder why I need the ? in the expressions. I’ve only done it like … Read more
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What are these two terms in an understandable way? 12 s 12 Greedy will consume as much as possible. From http://www.regular-expressions.info/repeat.html we see the example of trying to match HTML tags with <.+>. Suppose you have the following: <em>Hello World</em> You may think that <.+> (. means any non newline character and + means one … Read more
