a g <mewa...@gmail.com> writes: > regex_test "a[^x]*?a" "a1a2a"
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html#tag_09_04_06>: 9.4.6 EREs Matching Multiple Characters [...] The behavior of multiple adjacent duplication symbols ('+', '*', '?', and intervals) produces undefined results. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."