Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:41:27 -0800 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin/regex is non-POSIX Message-ID: <20040120194127.GA3880@efn.org> References: <20040118050449.GA3672@efn.org> <20040119201357.GA2608@efn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: bs"d X-IsSubscribed: yes On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:38:40PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: > >> Finally, a common extension appears to be the use or "?" after a > >> repetition specification to mean non-greedy matching, e.g. > >> "a+?" will match only the first "a" in "aaaa". > > You want the pcre packages then (pcre and pcre-devel). > > no, not really. Care to say why? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/