leftmost longest match (of disjunctions) ; greediness of "|"

[Joerg Schuster]

"Diez B. Roggisch" <deets_noospaam at web.de> writes:


> The only thing you can do to avoid is is to split your disjunctions and
> search separately, and afterwards takt the longest part. That could be done
> using a small grammar, that allows you to detect the disjunctions and
> create separate rexes for it.
> 
> Diez

Thanks for the tip.