From: Hirotsugu Asari <asari.ruby@...>
Date: 2009-06-20T10:31:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23942] Re: [Bug #1661](Rejected) RegExp mismatch


On Jun 19, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

> Issue #1661 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada.
>
> Status changed from Assigned to Rejected
>
> Because "\s" is just one space, and differs from /\s/.
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> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1661
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> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org
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It seems counterintuitive to me that

Regexp.new(re,Regexp::EXTENDED).eql?(/#{re}/x)

can be false for any string 're'.  (In this case, re="\s*")