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Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:17:06 +0100
From:	"Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam AT online DOT no>
To:	cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, sds AT gnu DOT org
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Subject:	RE: cygwin/regex is non-POSIX
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sds AT gnu DOT org wrote.
>
> Finally, a common extension appears to be the use or "?" after
> a repetition specification to mean non-greedy matching, e.g.
> "a+?" will match only the first "a" in "aaaa".

Just a small historical note:  This extension first appeared in
Perl some 10+ years ago.  It is used after the quantifiers ?, *,
+, and {m,n} to get "non-greedy" or "minimal" matching.  The
extension became popular and now implemented in several regex
engines.

Peter

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