From: ts Date: 2004-10-14T19:11:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Oniguruma Part 2 >>>>> "C" == Christian Kaiser writes: CIn Oniguruma, '\b' matches the "bell" character. ??? svg% ruby -rjj -e '"xxxaaaxxx aaa".match(/\baaa\b/)' Regexp /\baaa\b/ 0 word-bound 1 exact3 aaa 2 word-bound 3 end Optimize EXACT_BM : aaa String <> pos=3 0 word-bound xxx|aaaxxx aaa |FAIL String <> pos=10 0 word-bound xaaaxxx |aaa | 1 exact3 xaaaxxx |aaa | 2 word-bound axxx aaa| | 3 end axxx aaa| | svg% Guy Decoux