Added option "greedy" for translations which lets pattern greedily match #608
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This minor patch adds an option "greedy" for translations, which is a simpler but sometimes useful form of recursion: characters will be matched as long as they match, then the rest of the mask will continue to be matched.
This e.g. allows matching of traditional decimal numbers with a fixed number of fraction digits up to any length AND a sign, which is not possible with normal reverse recursive matching:
Example:
(Allows 1,23 or -1,23 or 12,23 or -12,23 and so on)
This will probably also solve most of the issues people sometimes (like #436 )have with negative numbers without a huge invasive money-related patch.