From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-05-15T20:22:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange regexp behaviour in gsub

Florian Gross wrote:
>
> "bab\nbcab".gsub(/^(?<!bc?)ab$/, "cd")
                         ^^^
                         ^^^
           oniguruma doesn't like your questionmark 


Oniguruma only supports fixed width lookbehind.. quantifiers are not possible
however you can use alternation instead.

       (?<!b(?:c|))

-- 
Simon Strandgaard