From: Gottlob Frege (gottlobfrege_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-04 13:41:16
On 7/4/07, david v <danova_fr_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Ok i understand david and divad is the same so it's normal to find it twice,
> however why it always return as match "David" and not both matches "david"
> and "divad" in the order they appear in the searched string??? does not make
> sense to me ?? How can i get the matches in the same order they appear in
> the string ??
>
match returns what part of the input string matched the regex, not
what part of the regex matched the input string.
so
regex = "f*.r"
stringtosearch = "foobarblah"
match is "foobar" not "f*.r"
Is that the confusion here?
Tony