Re: [Bug] S-flag imposes non-greedy match where it shouldn't

[Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Or rather not a bug… It seems that it's the result of how % searches
the substrings from the end – it stops at the first match, i.e.: after
finding a first X from the right.

On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 21:41, Sebastian Gniazdowski
<sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> str="aXXXXXbXXXXc"; print ${(S)str##X##}
> Output: abXXXXc
>
> As it can be seen, the flag worked correctly. However, when %% will be
> used instead of ##:
>
> str="aXXXXXbXXXXc"; print ${(S)str%%X##}
> Output: aXXXXXbXXXc
>
> Then the (S) flag seems to impose also non-greedy matching, not only
> substring searching.
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