Joerg Schuster js at cis.uni-muenchen.de
Tue Dec 2 03:21:20 EST 2003

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Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:

> produce a longer overall match.  In other words, the "|" operator is never 
> greedy. 

O.k. Thanks for pointing this out. Maybe I should have formulated my
question differently: Is there a trick (be it dirty or not) to make
"|" greedy in python?


Jörg

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