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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add reference to the lack of "non-greedy" variants
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Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı /Kammer |
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add reference to the lack of "non-greedy" variants |
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Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:08:43 +0100 |
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"Diogo F. S. Ramos" <address@hidden> writes:
> While describing special characters, remind the reader that
> "non-greedy" variants are not supported. They might not be familiar
> with POSIX extended regular expression and expect it to work.
Going by that logic, might they not expect a lot more? (Say, if all
they know about regexps is PCRE, for example.) Intuition says that it's
enough to specify "POSIX extended regular expressions", because they're
a very clearly defined type of regexp. (Don't be fooled by the word
"extended", POSIX rigorously defines a type of regexp called "extended
regular expressions", aka ERE.)
Taylan