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Re: regexp

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:09:49PM +0400, Alexander Taranov wrote:
> "Immanuel Litzroth" <immanuel_litzroth@hotmail.com> writes:
> > The manual says :
> > The first string in this list is the portion of string that
> > matched pattern. If two portions of string can match pattern, then
> > the earliest and longest match is found.
>
> string "" is really _earliest_ match because a* means `zero or more
> occurences of 'a'. regexp "aa*" will work exactly as you expect

	That's right, but the empty string is not the ealiest and
*longest* match. Is this a symptom of the regexp machinery?

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