Regular expression woes

[Lionello Lunesu]

"just jeff" <psychobrat at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:eom9pa$tjm$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> Lionello Lunesu Wrote:
>
>> (...)
>> Also, the following two appear to be missing from "conservative 
>> matching":
>>
>> xfoo[xx]xxxfoox
>> xfooxxxx[xfoox]
>
> I wouldn't have expected them to be found; I had thought standard regex
> behavior was not to find overlapping matches (i.e. to start searching 
> again
> just past the end of any match it finds).

VS2005 did find them, using x. at x

L.