Matching C integer constants with re

[Skip Montanaro]

    Thomas>  re.compile(r"(0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+|\d+)([uU]|[lL]|[uU][lL]|[lL][uU])?")

    Thomas> and it fails to match constants with a two character suffix like
    Thomas> these: "123ul" and "123lu", although "123u" and "123l" are found
    Thomas> correctly.  Can anyone see what's wrong?

Try reordering the "ul" stuff so the two-character options occur earlier:

    ...([uU][lL]|[lL][uU]|[uU]|[lL])?

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