> On 12 Oct 2019, at 14:17, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > But remember that 'having longer first' is meaningless for a > non-deterministic finite automaton that does a single pass through the > string to be searched.
It is possible to identify all submatches deterministically in linear time without backtracking — I a made an algorithm for that. A selection among different submatches then requires additional rules.
