From: ts Date: 2001-05-25T18:32:50+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:15708] regexp Ruby has really a problem with 'duplicate'. I must say that I've found very strange the rules used by the regexp engine in this case. Another example pigeon% ruby -e 'puts "OK" if /(a)*-\1b/ =~ "aaa-b"' OK pigeon% Guy Decoux