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in thread Why doesn't quantifier work with character classes?

Hence, the eight consecutive characters may appear anywhere on a line. Right?

Yes, but since the lines that match the character class in question contain only those characters; and a regex will always match as early as possible; that'll be at the beginning of the line in these cases.

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