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Improve markup for the description of non-greedy operators.

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Add an index entry.
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Eli Zaretskii 2000-01-04 12:01:26 +00:00
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@ -408,10 +408,11 @@ preceding expression either once or not at all. For example,
@samp{ca?r} matches @samp{car} or @samp{cr}; nothing else.
@item *?, +?, ??
@cindex non-greedy regexp matching
are non-greedy variants of the operators above. The normal operators
@samp{*, +, ?} are greedy in that they match as much as they can,
while if you prepend a @samp{?} after them, it makes them non-greedy
in that they will match as little as possible.
@samp{*}, @samp{+}, @samp{?} are @dfn{greedy} in that they match as much
as they can, while if you append a @samp{?} after them, it makes them
non-greedy: they will match as little as possible.
@item [ @dots{} ]
is a @dfn{character set}, which begins with @samp{[} and is terminated