Re: [TxMt] regex problem

On Apr 1, 2005, at 23:14, Dameron Midgette wrote:

^(*[^\t])\t(*[^\t]){8}\t

I think this should probably be:

^([^\t]*)\t([^\t]*){8}\t

replacing with this: $1\t$2\t

Since you have 'repeat 8 times' last, the capture registers ($1 & $2) will contain only the captures from the last repeat.

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This is a known bug. The problem is when you do a repeat without a preceding character, like your * which had nothing to repeat -- basically the regex library will then go into infinite loop, applying a zero width pattern to the text. Something I will fix before 1.1 final.