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From: "Rudolf Sykora" <rudolf.sykora@gma...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:41:41 +0200

2008/10/24 John Stalker <stalker@mat...>:
> I think you've understood correctly.  Back references mostly aren't
> there.  Greedy operators aren't there.

you probably mean NON-greedy ops.
I was not that concerned about backreferences but submatch extraction
(according to the terminology used by R. Cox in his article).
R.

PS.: and submatch extraction is there, somehow, undocumented (to my knowledge)