"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:op.u0n5g5m7eav7ka at localhost.localdomain... > > This is a common problem with some regex designs. Java has (or had) the > same problem. I don't know if its fixable, you may want to try Tango's > regex package. > No, don't. Tango's regex is severely broken.