Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@xxxxxxx> writes: > I would have thought "<[^<]+?:" should mean: > match a "<" > followed by 1-n characters as long as they are not "<" > until the VERY NEXT ":" > The "?" should make the "+" after "[^<]" non-greedy and thus > stop at the first occurrence of ":", right ? Or am I > misunderstanding that part ? No, non-greedy just means that if there are multiple ways to make the pattern match the string, prefer the way that makes this sub-match the shortest (whereas the default makes leftmost sub-matches longest). If you don't want the char class to match : then you need to say that explicitly. BTW, I'm fairly sure that unless you are doing something that extracts or replaces sub-matches, there is no value whatever in marking quantifiers non-greedy; that just complicates life for the regex compiler. A match is a match, if you're not paying attention to where the subpattern boundaries are. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
