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31 | Often there is more than one way of matching a regular expression at a particular | |
32 | location, for POSIX basic and extended regular expressions, the "best" | |
33 | match is determined as follows: | |
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37 | Find the leftmost match, if there is only one match possible at this | |
38 | location then return it. | |
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41 | Find the longest of the possible matches, along with any ties. If there | |
42 | is only one such possible match then return it. | |
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45 | If there are no marked sub-expressions, then all the remaining alternatives | |
46 | are indistinguishable; return the first of these found. | |
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49 | Find the match which has matched the first sub-expression in the leftmost | |
50 | position, along with any ties. If there is only on such match possible | |
51 | then return it. | |
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54 | Find the match which has the longest match for the first sub-expression, | |
55 | along with any ties. If there is only one such match then return it. | |
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58 | Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each additional marked sub-expression. | |
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61 | If there is still more than one possible match remaining, then they are | |
62 | indistinguishable; return the first one found. | |
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