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I must be missing something because the corrected regex (/\Aauthor ([^<]*)[ ]{0,1}<(.+)>/) seems to behave the same as the problematic one: https://regexr.co

I must be missing something because the corrected regex (/\Aauthor ([^<]*)[ ]{0,1}<(.+)>/) seems to behave the same as the problematic one: https://regexr.com/7qrum I wonder whether github may not be using PCRE.

jwilk 3y ago
The problem wasn't that the regexp matched the second "author" line, but that it didn't match the first one.