On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 10:42:13AM -0700, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...] > Hmm, you're right. I was a bit disappointed to find out that the | > operator in std.regex (and also in Perl's regex) doesn't do > longest-match but first-match. :-( I had always thought it did > longest-match, like in lex/flex. > > I wish we can extend std.regex to allow longest-match for > alternations... but there may be performance consequences.
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13268 T -- Valentine's Day: an occasion for florists to reach into the wallets of nominal lovers in dire need of being reminded to profess their hypothetical love for their long-forgotten.
