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- Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:00 pm #10932 But isn't a " a character?

How come it only takes out the words between the quotes?

That's what I can't get my head around.

I would have thought that (%a+) would get all of the word up to the " but it doesn't work.

Last edited by zooto68 on Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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- Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:04 pm #10933 I was editing my reply while you guys responded. Check above.

- Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:30 pm #10935

But isn't a " a character?

How come it only takes out the words between the quotes?

That's what I can't get my head around.

I would have thought that (%a+) would get all of the word up to the " but it doesn't work.

I pointed you at the description of patterms, where you will find this sentence:

Like `*´, the modifier `-´ also matches zero or more occurrences of characters of the original class. However, instead of matching the longest sequence, it matches the shortest one.

- Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:44 pm #10937 I get that but what I don't get is why it stops at the " (quote) character instead of going all the way to the end of the string? Is that not classed as a character too? What is the definition of a character?

Also why does (%a+) not work?

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