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Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:41:27 -0800
From:	Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
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Subject:	Re: cygwin/regex is non-POSIX
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:38:40PM -0500, Sam Steingold <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".
> > You want the pcre packages then (pcre and pcre-devel).
> 
> no, not really.

Care to say why?

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