Q for regexp experts

[Bob Techentin]

Harald Kirsch wrote:
> 
> Even with perl-compatible regular expressions it seems to be
> impossible to specify a pattern which matches
> 
>    `the longest substring not containing separator' SEP
> 
> Put another way, from a given starting point, the pattern shall match
> everything until just before the next occurence of SEP. 

Try a non-greedy match on .*, followed by a literal SEP.

	regexp {(.*?)SEP} $string matchvar firstpart

Bob
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