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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem on understanding the regexp command Post 302745027 by Yoda on Sunday 16th of December 2012 10:41:22 AM
Old 12-16-2012
I ran this regex in PERL to show you what exactly is happening:-
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

my $str = 'abc/def/gh';
my @r_1 = $str =~ /(\S+)\//;
my @r_2 = $str =~ /\/(\S+)/;
print "String: ", $str, "\nRegex 1: ", @r_1, "\nRegex 2: ", @r_2, "\n";

Code:
./regex.pl
String: abc/def/gh
Regex 1: abc/def
Regex 2: def/gh

In 1st regex, the string is getting split considering last / sign.
In 2nd regex, the string is getting split considering first / sign.
So basically whatever is there before the first & last / is getting omitted. I hope you understood.
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