Re: POSIX regular expressions (was: autodetecting MBR location)
* (Colin Watson)
| >For a non-POSIX regex, that is.
|
| Could you point me to some documentation about this? regex(7) claims to
| describe POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions, and describes leftmost-first
| behaviour.
Hmm. Strange. Mastering Regular Expressions by O'Reilly has
something about this, where they claim otherwise. I don't have the
POSIX specification so I can check myself, though.
| So is there no correct POSIX regex library in Debian?
No, not if MRE is right. Which I suppose it is, but am not 100% sure
of, as I haven't read the specs.
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