[Exist-open] Regular Expressions

[Scott G. <ws...@vi...>]

What am I missing here?

[near(., 'free*', 1)]

and

[near(., 'free?', 1)]

are returning the same number of hits, and this should not be the case. 
For instance free? is matching "freesoilers".

Is there a problem with the regular expression matching or am I doing 
something wrong? I thought ? should match 0 or 1 and that * would match 
0 or many.

Thanks,
Scott

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