Re: Major bullet biting on | vs || within regex

2007-01-16 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 02:05:44PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: : On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:41:03AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : > Note, in case you don't read synopsis checkins: the previous checkin : > majorly changes the semantics of | within regex to support required : > longest-token matchi

Re: Major bullet biting on | vs || within regex

2007-01-16 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:41:03AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > Note, in case you don't read synopsis checkins: the previous checkin > majorly changes the semantics of | within regex to support required > longest-token matching semantics rather than left-to-right matching. > This is nearly on the sam