Would you guys with the earlier comments be happier with the text "links to examples" ?

This is a typical problem in MSDN. They seem to think that no-one will read their pages if they have more than a handfull of lines, so they have a page with links that links to a page with links and those links in turn link to another page with links. Finally at the bottom of the chain the examples tend out not to be worth having because again they are thinking in terms of web pages and not in terms of documents and don't want to make the examples too long.

I just want a single and comprehensive (and long) page that I can print out and read. Note - MSDN people - that I don't want a page that will only print properly in letter format either !!

Personally, I'd prefer to have a page with decent examples/samples.

For many, Regular Expressions are very hard to grok (although once you get in to it, they're not TOO bad). Examples on a page titled "Regular Expression Examples" would seem to be a good thing.

Matches (as I understand it) are by default greed, that is they will match as much as they can of the string. Sometimes you want the smallest match.

(PowerShell Example)
PS> $line = "one apple, two oranges, three pears, four pineapples"

PS>#Example of a greedy regular expression (largest possible match)
PS> $line -replace "\s.+,\s", "REPLACED"
oneREPLACED four pineapples

PS>#Example of lazy match (by using ? to force lazy match)
PS> $line -replace "\s.+?,\s", "REPLACED"
oneREPLACEDtwoREPLACEDthreeREPLACEDfour pineapples

More examples at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions#Lazy_quantification