From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should not * be greedy in a regexp?
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:55:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr6j66ak4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <472CB6AB.9020301@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:58:03 +0100")
> Should not both this regexp give the same result here? It looks to me like *
> is treated as *? - ie non-greedy.
The regexp-matching is greedy, so it matches the longest match, but the
regexp-search will return the leftmost (i.e. first) match, so mod-regx*
will match at the very first position (matching the mprty string),
whereas mod-regx+ will fail at that position so it will then succeed at
the second position where both mod-regx+ and mod-regx* would match the
same string.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-04 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-03 17:58 Should not * be greedy in a regexp? Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-03 18:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-03 18:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-03 19:12 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-04 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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