From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Torben ?gidius Mogensen  wrote:   
   > Ralph Boland  writes:   
      
   >>> >    R%  : equivalent to the string  (R~)R   
      
   Someone else wrote:   
      
   >>> I can see the usefulness of the first two, but not really   
   >>> the third.   Do you have an example?   
      
   (snip)   
      
   Sometimes you want to find the shortest match.  (I believe the GNU   
   regexp has an operator for it, but I don't remember what it is.)   
      
   ^.*XYZ   
      
   will normally match up to the last XYZ on the input record, but   
   sometimes you want the first one.  I do agree that there should be a   
   convenient operator for that.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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