Comments on: When Regular Expressions Gets Greedy http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/05/when-regular-expressions-gets-greedy/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:47:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha By: Joseph Scott http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/05/when-regular-expressions-gets-greedy/#comment-4580 Joseph Scott Mon, 04 May 2009 20:21:43 +0000 http://josephscott.org/?p=1214#comment-4580 True, but that wouldn't have illustrated what happens when you get hit by greedy regular expressions :-) True, but that wouldn’t have illustrated what happens when you get hit by greedy regular expressions :-)

]]> By: Beau Lebens http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/05/when-regular-expressions-gets-greedy/#comment-4579 Beau Lebens Mon, 04 May 2009 20:16:12 +0000 http://josephscott.org/?p=1214#comment-4579 You could also have just used a more restrictive character range/class in your regex to avoid this. something like: '|anamehere\+([^@]+)@.*$| or '|anamehere\+([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)@.*$| :) You could also have just used a more restrictive character range/class in your regex to avoid this.

something like:

‘|anamehere\+([^@]+)@.*$|

or

‘|anamehere\+([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)@.*$|

:)

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