[Haskell-cafe] Non-greedy match in Text.Regx.Posix

[Roman Cheplyaka]

* C K Kashyap <ckkashyap at gmail.com> [2012-07-17 13:31:05+0530]
> I was exploring Text.Regex.Posix and found that I was not able to do a
> non-greedy match by modifying the quantifier with a "?". How can I achieve
> non-greedy match in Text.Regex.Posix?

POSIX regular expressions semantics doesn't have a notion of a
greedy/non-greedy match.
Use an engine that implements Perl semantics if you need one.

Refer to [1] for more detail.

[1]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Regular_expressions#.28apple.7Corange.29

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