• From: Dan Shelton <dan.f.shelton@g...>
• To: Mike Sokolov <sokolov@i...>
• Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 23:24:31 +0200

On 2 July 2012 23:06, Mike Sokolov <sokolov@i...> wrote:
> Can anybody explain to me why the comment subexpression wouldn't just
> swallow an entire document like this:
>
> <!-- -->
> <a />
>  -->

The +? after the pattern makes sure the previous expression is not
greedy. regex(5) should explain. So it won't swallow the whole
document, it'll travel along the characters until it finds the first
-->

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