From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-10-27T19:58:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression quirk?

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@gmail.com> wrote:
>> AFAIK, there are no possessive quantifiers in 1.9,
>
> You are misinformed.  Where did you get that information?  Please see:
>
> http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/doc/RE.txt

I don't recall how I ended up with that "fact". I was probably looking
at a very old version of that file, or confused by ({n,m}+, {n,}+,
{n}+ are possessive op. in ONIG_SYNTAX_JAVA only).

It makes perfect sense now, and quite a relief for my work.

Thanks,
Ammar