Guile regular expressions are too greedy

[Chris Dennis]

Hello Guile People

Is there a way to make Guile regular expressions less greedy?  I 
understand that POSIX doesn't define non-greedy modifiers.

Specifically, I'm trying to parse font names such as

    Arial 12
    Arial Bold Italic 14
    Nimbus Sans L Bold Italic Condensed 11

so that I can construct CSS styles from them.

I've tried the following, but the first (.*) gobbles up everything 
before the size because the other elements are optional:

(define s (string-match "(.*)( +(bold|semi-bold|regular|light))?( 
+(italic|oblique))?( +(condensed))? +([0-9]+)" "nimbus sans l bold 
italic condensed 11"))


Are there other ways of doing this?

cheers

Chris
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Chris Dennis                                  address@hidden
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK