regexp non-greedy matching bug?

[Mike Meyer]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
>> ^ must match the beginning of the string (BTW, you can get the same
>> behavior by leaving off the ^ and using search instead of match).
> that's backwards, isn't it?  using ^ with match is usually pointless (since
> match only looks at the first position anyway), and using ^ with search
> is also usually pointless...

Yup, you're right. The '^' was redundant in the OP's post.

     <mike 
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