Re: [Exim] [root@charlotte.intern.cats.ms: Bug#53140: direct…

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Kai Henningsen wrote:

> $ perl -e '$x = "A terrible catastrophe\!"; $x =~ /cat|catastrophe/;
> print "matched <$&>\n";'
> matched <cat>
> $
>
> Same as Perl, so nothing wrong as far as I can see.

Indeed, but the point is it doesn't go for the longest match, but for
the first match.

Just like     suffix = -* : .*

:-)))

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