From: "mame (Yusuke Endoh)" <mame@...>
Date: 2013-05-31T13:23:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:55215] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7092][Rejected] StringScanner start-of-line matches false positives, while lookbehind for a newline gives false negatives


Issue #7092 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh).

Status changed from Feedback to Rejected

I'm marking this ticket as closed due to no feedback.

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Yusuke Endoh <mame@tsg.ne.jp>
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Bug #7092: StringScanner start-of-line matches false positives, while lookbehind for a newline gives false negatives
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7092#change-39576

Author: jayferd (Jay Adkisson)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Low
Assignee: mame (Yusuke Endoh)
Category: 
Target version: next minor
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux] 
Backport: 


To reproduce:

    >> require 'strscan'
    >> ss = StringScanner.new("ab")
    >> ss.scan(/./)
    => "a"
    >> ss.scan(/^./) # expecting nil, since the head is in the middle of a line
    => "b"

As a workaround-that-didn't-work, I also tried looking behind for a newline, which seems never to match, even with the `m` flag.

    >> ss = StringScanner.new("a\nb")
    >> ss.scan(/../m)
    => "a\n"
    >> ss.scan(/(?<=\n)./m) # expecting "b", since the previous char is a newline
    => nil



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