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* A repeat inside a regexp group gives back to what follows the groupGabriel Schneider4 days
On aab, /a+ab/ matched but /(a+)ab/ and /(a*)ab/ missed, and so did (.+)_area and ([a-z_]+)_area, in addr, Edit and look alike. mvzr's hasAlt counts a group's own ) as an alternative, so every group with pattern after it takes matchGroup's alternatives branch, which never tries a repeat's shorter matches. No newer mvzr fixes it (trunk is the pinned commit), so the build patches the fetched source as it does the step budget, anchor-checked: when the rest fails after a group, the group's shorter matches are tried, longest first. docs/mvzr-group-backtrack.md is a report for upstream. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>