Re: Regex: A case where the longest match isn't being found

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 10:50:13AM -0700, Dan Bornstein wrote:
> I found a case where the regex evaluator doesn't seem to be finding the 
> longest possible match for a given expression. The expression works as 
> expected on an older version of Bash (3.2.57(1)-release 
> (arm64-apple-darwin22)).

Bash uses the system's (libc) version of regex(3), so the difference
you're seeing is presumably caused by the apple-darwin22 part, rather
than the bash 3.2 part.  (Or conversely, caused by the linux-gnu part
rather than the bash 5.2 part.)