From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2004-05-16T18:48:25+09:00
Subject: Re: error in reg ex parser of 1.6.3 and 1.8.1?

>>>>> "C" == Christian Kaiser <chk@online.de> writes:

C> I would assume this to be an error:

 it's called "eternal" match

C> "<META http-equiv=\"Content-Type content=\"text/html;
C> charset=iso-8859-1\">".gsub(/<(?:[^">]+|"[^"]*")+>/) { |sMatch| puts sMatch;
C> ''}

 Don't give the possibility to backtrace, something like

   gsub(/<(?>[^">]+|"[^"]*")+>/)


 probably there is a better way to write it


Guy Decoux