Re: Procmail egrep regex problem...

Jim Osborn <[email protected]> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:32:20 -0800

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On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at  4:32:38PM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> The \/ operator has the side-effect of making regular expressions to
> the LEFT of the \/ match the MINIMUM possible string, and expressions
> to the RIGHT of the \/ match the MAXIMUM possible string...

Which explains why <blah>\/<blah>+ works 
             where <blah>\/<blah>* may not.