Minor regexp oversight for setext headings

[Angie Ahl]

On 7 Oct 2006, at 20:10, John Gruber wrote:


> Allan Odgaard <29mtuz102 at sneakemail.com> wrote on 10/7/06 at 6:27 AM:

>

>> Noticed the patterns for setext style headings are:

>>       ^(.+)[ \t]*\n=+[ \t]*\n+

>>   Should be:

>>       ^(.+?)[ \t]*\n=+[ \t]*\n+

>

> Why? I can't see where this would make a difference.


Not sure that it would but I've read in several places that non  
greedy should be used whereever it can as it's more efficient for the  
regex parser and processor. Don't have any benchmarks to back this up  
but I'm sure it says so in the mastering regex book.

Angie