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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:05:33 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions
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> regexp(6) seems to know only greedy regular expressions. So does
> probably awk, sed, grep, ..., since these are based on that regexp.
> My question is what to do if one needs non-greedy regexps.

russ has a great writeup on this.
http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/
i think it covers all your questions.

- erik