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Date:	Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:34:44 +1100 (EST)
From:	Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>
Subject:	Re: Updated: sed-4.1.3-1
To:	The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
In-Reply-To:	<20050129120332.GA3778@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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Message-Id:	<20050130223445.729458570A@pessard.research.canon.com.au>

On 29 Jan, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>  * regex addresses do not use leftmost-longest matching.  In other words, 
>    /.\+/ only looks for a single character, and does not try to find as 
>    many of them as possible like it used to do. 

Interesting: does that mean every existing script that relied on the old
behaviour must change?  I'm glad I stuck with the old "/..*/" notation
when I wanted one or more repetitions!

So \+ now works the opposite of * (\+ = shortest, * = longest)?  And .\+
is now a synonym for a single "."?  So, why would you use .\+?  Ah, I
see, it's a way of matching zero or one occurrences.  I would have
thought a new symbol would have made more sense for the new semantics,
so as to preserve backward compatibility.

Probably I've misunderstood.

luke


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