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

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:18:49 +0200

Jim Meyering <[email-masked]> writes:

> Because of expr?  Its use of regexp is tightly specified by POSIX,
> so we cannot change it without a very good reason.

In the OP's use of regexp POSIX defines nothing.

Andreas.

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