From: Martin Kahlert <mkcon@...>
Date: 2007-01-24T18:00:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression: Is this a bug or feature?

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:43:53PM +0900, George Ogata wrote:
> I'm not sure why you think it might be a bug.  The '|' operator just
> binds very loosely, so you have to group the "a|b" in parens.  Note
> that in part 1, The bit that matches is the left side of the '|',
> namely 'a' (no parens), so there are no captures.  In part 2, the
> right side ('b=(.)') matches, so there's 1 capture.  In part 3, it
> matches the whole thing ('(a|b)=(.)'), so there are 2 captures.
> 
> Does this make sense?


I always assumed 'a|b anything' means '(a|b) anything'.

Thanks for this clarification!

Regards
Martin