cygwin/regex is non-POSIX

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:38:40PM -0500, Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> Finally, a common extension appears to be the use or "?" after a
> >> repetition specification to mean non-greedy matching, e.g.
> >> "a+?" will match only the first "a" in "aaaa".
> > You want the pcre packages then (pcre and pcre-devel).
> 
> no, not really.

Care to say why?

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