[Tutor] stopping greedy matches

[Mike Hall]

On Mar 16, 2005, at 5:32 PM, Sean Perry wrote:
> I know this does not directly help, but I have never successfully used 
> \b in my regexs. I always end up writing something like foo\s+bar or 
> something more intense.

I've had luck with the boundary flag in relation to lookbehinds. For 
example, if I wanted to only match after "int" (and not "print") 
(?<=\bint) seems to work fine. I'm a bit frustrated at not being able 
to find a simple way to have a  search stop after eating up one word. 
You'd think the \b would do it, but nope.