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

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From: "Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [Bug] S-flag imposes non-greedy match where it shouldn't
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:29:37 +0000
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Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote on Wed, 18 Dec 2019 20:44 +00:00:
> 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.

Could we improve the documentation of (S), then?

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