From: Tait <git.git@t41t.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:49:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git send-email: edit recipient addresses with the --compose flag
Message-ID: <20081111014919.GI7408@ece.pdx.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811091344480.20499@sys-0.hiltweb.site>

> > > +	if ($c_file =~ /^To:\s*+(.+)\s*\nCc:/ism) {
> > 
> > Greedy operators are only supported with perl 5.10 or more... I think it's a 
> > bad idea to use them...
> 
> The problem here was that a space should follow the field, but it may
> not.  The user may unwarily backup over it.  "\s*" would match this
> case.
> 
> But if there is a space, it is included in the "(.+)".

Not in any version of Perl to which I have access. 

Why doesn't
	/^To:\s*(.+)\s*\nCc:/ism
work?