> It's a (mistyped :) Perl extension that POSIX (and CF) don't support:
> '?:' after the '(' stops the parenthesised section being treated as a
> referenceable subexpression: it's just used for grouping.
Oops. It was mistyped! That's what I get for Copy'N'Pasting. Also,
for trying to answer questions on a Monday. However, it is supported in
CFMX, which no longer uses a POSIX engine.
> There are a number of Perl RE extensions I *really* miss in CF - that's
> one of them, but lazy matching is the big one (ie. take the first, as
> opposed to the longest, match for an RE fragment). Lookahead and
> lookbehind assertions are nice too, and would provide another potential
> solution to your problem.
Non-greedy or lazy matching is supported in CFMX. IIRC, lookahead is as
well, but not lookbehind.
--Ben
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