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Author Jason.Stumpf
Recipients Jason.Stumpf, dbenbenn, ezio.melotti, janzert, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2013-09-19.23:29:02
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Sorry, that implication was backwards.  I don't think I can prove from just the documentation that '(a|ab)*' can match 'aba' in certain contexts.

If the docs said: "* attempts to match again after each match of the preceding regular expression." I think it would describe the observed behaviour.
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