Re^5: Regex: matching character which happens exactly once (updated)

You're asking theoretical questions, and then getting bogged down in current implementation.

Turn this around. What would you want to happen if you had a forward reference?

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Re^6: Regex: matching character which happens exactly once (updated) by LanX (Saint) on Oct 23, 2017 at 18:51 UTC
You seem to think it's a bug, for me it's most likely a feature. I think this stems from the foundations of regular expressions as state machines. > What would you want to happen if you had a forward reference? Something wonderful, HAL! Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply]