From: Brian Ford <redmine@...>
Date: 2010-04-29T03:49:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:29864] [Bug #3217] Regexp fails to match string with '<' when encoding is UTF-8

Bug #3217: Regexp fails to match string with '<' when encoding is UTF-8
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3217

Author: Brian Ford
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
Target version: 1.9.2
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-04-28 trunk 27536) [i386-darwin9.8.0]

Hi,

There is an issue matching a string like "a *b* c *d*<" when the encoding of the file is set to UTF-8 and the regexp is attempting to match '*something*'. Afaik, *< is not special in the encoding.

This gist illustrates the issue:

http://gist.github.com/382510

Thanks,
Brian


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