Re: "grep -o" skips some matching patterns

[Roberto Gordo Saez]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:52:32PM -0500, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> The rules are:
> 
>   (1) Left-most position.
>   (2) At the same position, then longest match.

Oh, because of some strange reason i've (incorrectly) assumed that the
longest match was at the first priority. Sorry.

> 
> A pattern which matches the empty string always succeeds at the
> beginning of the target, even when it matches an empty string at the
> beginning rather than the stuff you really want in the middle.
> Yes, this can be annoying.
> 
> Maybe you want "[01]+" ?
 
Yes, i need to fix it. That was an example, the regular expresions that
i'm using are long and complex, so i think that i'll need some time to
review all of them with caution because of that silly mistake :-(

Thank you for the correction.

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