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Written by jz.tusk on 2025-01-21 at 03:46

@jik

If the ([^ \t]) matches a \n, then the regex engine will have already moved past it, so even though you've got the /g option that particular \n won't match the first character of your regex? But when you pass it back in on the next loop it will?

Basically, "because \n\n is possible".

This feels like a situation where one of those extended regex attributes that means something like "match but don't consume" might do the trick for a single pass solution, but I never learned those. 😁

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