On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:27:13PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
> I don't really understand how the [^&] followed by the * works but it does.

"any character which is not an ampersand" repeated zero or more times.

So it matches

()
()&
(a)
(a)&
(aaa...)
(aaa...)&

Where the stuff inside () is what's being matched. The matched part stops
at the first & or the end of the string. It's greedy so it matches as long
a string as possible.

Nick.
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