I’m used to “Perl flavor” being used in the different languages I have experience with, so, knowing the basics, I haven’t looked too deeply into differences until I need to.
I was under the impression that the modifier “g” meant “greedy” not “global”.https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-dialect-emitter/21358/8?u=mittineague
But it seems it means globalhttps://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-dialect-emitter/21358/7?u=mittineague https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/lib/markdown.js
What have I missed?
Looks like Perl.
This syntax is borrowed from Perl. Ruby supports the following modifiers:
/g means global in Perl as well.
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The “g” stands for “global”, which tells Perl to replace all matches, and not just the first one.
There are different modifiers that are greedy. + and * both are I think.
Thanks.
It looks like my understand of “greedy” (match modifier vs. pattern modifier) was muddled.
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