Using $NEST

[Kye-U]

(Jan. 03, 2009 08:02 AM)Quaraxkad Wrote:  But, why use [^>]++ instead of *? Is * greedy? Shouldn't [^>]++class and *class be the same thing, assuming there is no > before class?

[^>]++class means any run of characters that isn't > up until class
*class means any run of characters up until class

Is that right?

Yup, you are correct. [^>]++ is just like *, but more specific in matching all characters except >.

I've ran into trouble using * instead of [^>]++, where, if the byte limit is huge, the * would actually "eat" beyond the >