regular expression

Hi. I have the following expression: ?{m,n}+? Someone tells me that the '+' enhances regex performance by not saving back-track state during the expression evaluation. Can someone verify if this is true because I cannot find any document on this. I can only find that '+' means one or more occurrences of an expression.

Thanks,

paul0al

[359 byte] By [paul0ala] at [2007-9-29 18:57:25]
# 1
A single plus sign is a quantifier that means, as you said, one or more of the preceding atom. It's when a plus sign follows another quantifier (i.e., ?+, ++, *+, or {m,n}+) that it takes on its other meaning of not allowing backtracking.
uncle_alicea at 2007-7-15 19:14:36 > top of Java-index,Archived Forums,Java Programming...
# 2
thanks
paul0ala at 2007-7-15 19:14:36 > top of Java-index,Archived Forums,Java Programming...