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bug#24020: [PATCHv2] Fix ‘[[:word:]]*\u2620’ failing to match ‘foo\u2620
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#24020: [PATCHv2] Fix ‘[[:word:]]*\u2620’ failing to match ‘foo\u2620’ (bug#24020) |
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Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:00:46 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> writes:
> For example, take regular expression ‘[[:alpha:]]*1’ trying to match
> a string ‘foo’. Since the Kleene star is greedy, the engine will test
> the shortest match for ‘[[:alpha:]]*’ which is ‘foo’. At this point
Did you mean "the longest match"?
Andreas.
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bug#24020: [PATCH] Fix ‘is multibyte’ test regex.c’s mutually_exclusive_p (bug#24020), Michal Nazarewicz, 2016/07/27