EasyPattern bug?

[hagchr]

This simple example looks strange compared to what is written in the text referred to in the help file. "longest" should make it match as much as possible, ie in the example it should match "abc" but here it results in three matches "a", "b", and "c". "shortest" is the other way around - should match as little as possible, but here matches "abc". So it seems it is mixed up. Or am I mistaken (I normally do not use EasyPattern)?

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Let>string=abc

Let>pattern=[longest 1+ letter]
RegEx>pattern,string,1,m,nm,0

Let>pattern=[shortest 1+ letter]
RegEx>pattern,string,1,m,nm,0

[Marcus Tettmar]

I'm not sure to be honest. The docs are here:

https://www.datamystic.com/easypatterns_reference

Shouldn't it be [longest oneOrMore letter] ?

You might want to email datamystic directly if you need more help.