Re: Less greedy pattern match

On 4/15/2008 9:59 PM, Prateek wrote:
> Hi,
> This question is regarding the less greedy regular expression pattern
> match. As you know, Perl provides less greedy pattern match parameter
> in the form of repetition?
> 
> But does gawk provide anything similar?
> 
> The sample I was trying was:
> 
> echo ccccccd | gawk '{ print match ($0,c*?d)
> 
> I was expecting value 6 as output 

why?

> but was always getting value 1.
> 
> (The above is only an example; my patterns are more complex and was
> trying to find less greedy operators)

There's no "less greedy" operator (to be honest, I'm not sure what that
really
means or why it'd be more useful than a different RE), but if you post
some
sample input and expected output we can probably help get what you want
using
the existing functionality.

	Ed.