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Lazy Regex in Visual Studio

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For some reason everyone who implements a regex engine feels the need to tweak the syntax so that nobody feels at home. Worst of all regex implementations is the Visual Studio one.

Here is a little reminder of the VS lazy regex syntax.


/*

| Posix | Visual studio |
|-------+---------------|
| .*? | .@ |
| .+? | .# |

*/

Written by Erik Öjebo 2012-01-19 16:37

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