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bug#23676: Seems egrep violates simple rules of regexps


From: Марк Коренберг
Subject: bug#23676: Seems egrep violates simple rules of regexps
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 00:33:54 +0500

Example:

$ echo qwerty | egrep -o 'we|wert'
wert
$ echo qwerty | egrep -o 'wert|we'
wert

The same in Javascript:

/we|wert/.exec('qwerty')
["we"]
/wert|we/.exec('qwerty')
["wert"]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2394931/regex-is-behaving-lazy-should-be-greedy

$ egrep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.25


-- 
Segmentation fault





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