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Add reference to the lack of "non-greedy" variants

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While describing special characters, remind the reader that
"non-greedy" variants are not supported.  They might not be familiar
with POSIX extended regular expression and expect it to work.

* doc/ref/api-regex.texi: Add "non-greedy" observation
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Diogo F. S. Ramos 2014-03-26 00:27:21 -03:00 • committed by Andy Wingo
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@ -38,10 +38,11 @@ regex))}.
@node Regexp Functions
@subsection Regexp Functions
By default, Guile supports POSIX extended regular expressions.
That means that the characters @samp{(}, @samp{)}, @samp{+} and
@samp{?} are special, and must be escaped if you wish to match the
literal characters.
By default, Guile supports POSIX extended regular expressions. That
means that the characters @samp{(}, @samp{)}, @samp{+} and @samp{?} are
special, and must be escaped if you wish to match the literal characters
and there is no support for ``non-greedy'' variants of @samp{*},
@samp{+} or @samp{?}.
This regular expression interface was modeled after that
implemented by SCSH, the Scheme Shell. It is intended to be