From: Reto Schuettel <reto-ruby-core@...>
Date: 2006-07-20T01:06:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular-Expressions Problem/Bug

Hi

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:49:35AM +0900, Hugh Sasse wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, ts wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "R" == Reto Schuettel <reto-ruby-core@schuettel.ch> writes:
> > 
> > R> res = [ /(.*)ABC[y]\#$/,
> > R>         /(.*)ABC[y]\#/,
> > R>         /(.*)ABCy\#$/,
> > R>         /(.*)ABCy\#/ ]
> > 
> >  remove this `(.*)' it's just useless
> 
> Oh, yes, you can get that with MatchData#prematch.  That's worth testing
> to see how that affects performance.

In my case this was my work-around, but it may not work in other cases.

I'm just wondering if this really is normal/as it should be.

Regards,
Reto Schuettel