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From Simon Ellmann
Subject Re: regexp_replace not respecting greediness
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In response to Re: regexp_replace not respecting greediness  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
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Thanks for the hint to the documentation, I missed that part. This is really surprising behavior!

Cheers,
Simon

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On 19. Sep 2025, at 16:09, David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, September 19, 2025, Simon Ellmann <simon.ellmann@tum.de> wrote:
With the following regular expression, the second .* seems to match non-greedily although (if I am correct) it should match greedily:

Working as documented in rule 6:


David J.


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