From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: non-greedy matching?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:02:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Tc0a88d01526e5c5083@mailsweeper01.cambridgesiliconradio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:52:39 GMT." <Tc0a88d01526e534d4a@mailsweeper01.cambridgesiliconradio.com>
> % foo='%{one%}hello%{two%}'
> % print ${(S)foo//[%]\{*[%]\}}
> hello
>
> Don't ask me why you need to put the `%' in square brackets --- there may
> be some stray (s)printf in the code, for example. (Do tell me if you know
> what it is.)
I just realised: //% means match only at the end.
% print ${(S)foo//\\%\{*[%]\}}
also works. I always loathed that syntax: it's unmemorable and hacky (all
right, it's not on its own).
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-21 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20010321142303.B8924@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
2001-03-21 15:52 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-03-21 16:02 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2001-03-21 23:00 ` Adam Spiers
2001-03-22 0:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-03-22 10:32 ` Peter Stephenson
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