[pmwiki-users] Extended markup

[Ciaran]

It has several names, the one that springs to mind is non-greedy. 
whereas .* will attempt to match as *much* as possible  .*? will
attempt to match the least   that satisfies the expression.

Thats probably a bad definition that will get me shouted down for, but
it should give you enough to go off and google for it ;)
- Ciaran

On 21/04/05, CB <chrisbar at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Could someone explain me the question mark utility in the syntaxe of the
> pattern part ?
> For example :
> 
> Markup("em","inline","/''(.*?)''/","<em>$1</em>");
> 
> (http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/CustomMarkup)
> 
> Thanks
> CB
> 
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