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What is the purpose of the ? here?

• nfhshy68 4y ago
  I dunno, but I've seen a bug like this in prod while consulting.
• wiml 4y ago
  It makes the preceding * less "greedy". I don't think it has any effect on the set of strings matched by this regexp, though, which is a simple string suffix check.
  • jakopo87 4y ago
    I agree, but the dot should be escaped because it matches any character, so "@domain\.com$" should just works for.
    • jasonm23 4y ago
      Or use [.] so it's super clear on the a-human-is-reading-it parse.
      • account42 4y ago
        I don't think that's clearer because for [.] I need to remember that . does not need to be escaped in character classes whereas \. is quite clearly an escaped literal character without any advanced regexp knowledge.
• jasonm23 4y ago
  Non-greedy match (match what's necessary nothing more.) The default is greedy... match match match nom nom nom!