Re: [Regexp] Precedence of Left + vs. Right [^]

[Claude Brisson]

I think you misunderstood stingy/greedy behaviour : the regexp "tries" to
behave greedily if it can but revert to stingy if needed, as in your case.

to rewrite it, we need to know what you want exactly :-)

maybe you can try
[ab]+[^c]\Z

CloD

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis W. Bulgrien" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:09 PM
Subject: [Regexp] Precedence of Left + vs. Right [^]


> The expression "[ab]+[^c]" finds "aac"; even though the '+' was suppose to
> account for both 'a's, the not-'c' found the second 'a' and matched, to my
> un-expectations.  I thought the '+' would have higher precedence (left to
right)
> than the negated character set because it is first.  How would this be
> rewritten?
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