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posixStyleMatching
Aadhavan Srinivasan 1 month ago
parent 30779a446b
commit e6dba9fdcf

@ -114,6 +114,12 @@ Another, more subtle example is the following regex:
x|xx x|xx
While the stdlib implementation (and most other engines) will prefer matching the first item of the alternation, While the stdlib implementation (and most other engines) will prefer matching the first item of the alternation,
my engine will _always_ go for the longest possible match, regardless of the order of the alternation. this engine will _always_ go for the longest possible match, regardless of the order of the alternation.
Byte-slices and runes:
My engine does not support byte-slices. When a matching function receives a string, it converts it into a
rune-slice to iterate through it. While this has some space overhead, the convenience of built-in unicode
support made the tradeoff worth it.
*/ */
package regex package regex

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