Subject: Re: bug#5970: regex won't do lazy matching

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:28:44 +0200

a g <[email-masked]> 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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