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| From: | Paolo Bonzini |
| Subject: | Re: Non-greedy option greedy? |
| Date: | Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:06:02 +0200 |
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On 09/30/2010 04:44 PM, Satyaanveshi wrote:
Bugzilla from address@hidden wrote:Hi there, i execute this command in bash (cygwin): echo CC-3623843-4/2008 | grep -P -o --regexp=-.*?/ and I get this result: -3623843-4/ Shouldn it be -4/
Non-greediness doesn't override the "leftmost" rule. The match is always attempted from the beginning of the string, in your case from the first dash.
Paolo
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