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bug#5970: regex won't do lazy matching
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#5970: regex won't do lazy matching |
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Date: |
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:28:44 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.95 (gnu/linux) |
a g <address@hidden> writes:
> regex_test "a[^x]*?a" "a1a2a"
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html#tag_09_04_06>:
9.4.6 EREs Matching Multiple Characters
[...]
The behavior of multiple adjacent duplication symbols ('+', '*', '?',
and intervals) produces undefined results.
Andreas.
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