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regex won't do lazy matching

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: a g <mewalig <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5970: regex won't do lazy matching
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:36:54 -0600

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On 04/18/2010 07:33 PM, a g wrote:
> This may be a usage problem, but it does not exist with other regex packages
> (such as slre) and I can't find anything in the documentation to indicate
> that the syntax should be different for coreutils. I am using coreutils 8.4
> on ubuntu AMD64, version 9.10. I cannot get the coreutils regex matcher to
> do lazy matching.

Thanks for the report.  However, coreutils does not maintain regex code.
 Rather, uses an upstream version from gnulib, which in turn borrows
from glibc.  Perhaps the best course of action would be to try your test
app compiled against glibc, and if that still doesn't meet your needs,
then open a bug report against glibc.  And if glibc works, then open a
bug report against gnulib that gnulib and glibc disagree.

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
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