https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1035682 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/perl-backreferences#comment-1206123 <p>Thanks alot Tim. I get it now</p> <p>Stu</p> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:53:47 +0000 StuPeas comment 1206123 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/perl-backreferences#comment-1206095 <p>Remember, Perl is greedy when it looks for regular expressions. So it finds the longest (\w*) it can before it finds two letters in a row.</p> <p>For example, change the string to "aabbccddee". You'll see that is finds the e's. That's because the match it can find where (\w*) has the longest value puts the ee's as the two in a row.</p> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:29:16 +0000 timjpriebe comment 1206095 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net