in reply to Re^2: Regex: matching character which happens exactly once (using global memory)
in thread Regex: matching character which happens exactly once
I didn't expect my forward ref to work, if that's what you thought. The regex engine would have to include a flag to indicate when the first capturing parens were seen, and do the right thing.
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