Disagree in this case, where the whole regex
matches an empty string. Greadiness will match
as much as possible. So it will also match
the empty strings between consecutive
characters as much as possible, once
we have properly defined all the unique
empty strings. Because of greadiness,
fewer matches should be found. In this
case, it should find only 4 matches
(shown in my steps) instead of 6 matches
(shown in your steps).
Yingjie
I'm sorry but I really don't understand where your coming from.
Your regex says "Zero or more consecutive occurrences of something,
always returning the most possible". That's what it does, at every
position - only matching emptyness where it couldn't match anything
(findall then skips a character to avoid overlapping/infinite empty
matches), and at all other times matching the most possible (eg. "has a
lam" not "has", " a ", "lam").
Perhaps someone else can look at this and comment on whether findall is
doing what it is supposed to, or not. To me, it is.
Cheers, JB
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