From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-09-09T15:24:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Oniguruma question

On 08.09.2008 19:38, Kenneth McDonald wrote:
> I'm writing a library to make re's easier to use :-) This is in the  
> test suite.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback, that comes as a real surprise to me. So maybe  
> I'll try /..+?/

This one won't match after "aa".  Instead it will match "aa".  I do not 
know what you intend to match so I cannot really comment.  This is 
clearly a toy example, isn't it?  There are multiple ways to match "bb" 
in "aabb" and it is completely unclear to me what you are after.

Your original RX literally translated means "match anything which is not 
preceded by a" which is especially true for every character at the 
beginning of a string.

Btw, I can recommend "Mastering Regular Expressions" - it is a really 
good book on the matter.

Kind regards

	robert