On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 4:32:38PM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
The / operator has the side-effect of making regular expressions to the LEFT of the / match the MINIMUM possible string, and expressions to the RIGHT of the / match the MAXIMUM possible string...
Which explains why <blah>/<blah>+ works where <blah>/<blah>* may not.