SPUG:m,n -- why?
Creede Lambard
creede at penguinsinthenight.com
Sat Mar 15 09:24:34 CST 2003
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 23:24, Michael R. Wolf wrote:
> Does anyone know the historical roots of "n" and "m" for "min" and
> "max" in the regex quantifiers? I can never get a mnemonic for which
> is which. (Of course, the min is to the left of the max.) Perhaps if
> I know it's roots, I'll remember.
>
> That is (n,m) = (0,7) in this snippet:
>
> if ($fruit =~ /b(an){0,7}a/) {
> print "You've got an modular banana\n";
> }
Well, there is an "n" in "minimum" but not in "maximum." That's my
guess.
--
Creede Lambard <creede at penguinsinthenight.com>
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