2008/10/24 John Stalker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think you've understood correctly. Back references mostly aren't > there. Greedy operators aren't there.
you probably mean NON-greedy ops. I was not that concerned about backreferences but submatch extraction (according to the terminology used by R. Cox in his article). R. PS.: and submatch extraction is there, somehow, undocumented (to my knowledge)