Re: how to match the first pattern

On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, Sand Glass wrote:

> On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 3:18:23 PM UTC+8, Sand Glass wrote:
> > how can I stop the pattern at the first "]"?
> It's good in vim. Then I try to use the regular in perl script, but failed.

Same 'thing', i.e. the shortest match, so (in linux 'man perlre')
as far as I remember a '?' behind the '*' makes it 'non-greedy'
and this \[.*?\] gives 'the next closing ']' .

Stucki

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