From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-05-26T22:22:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15758] Re: java based interpreter and regexes

>>>>> "S" == Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de> writes:

S> Well, for me it looks like the Java one is a superset of the Ruby RE
S> engine, but perhaps somebody who knows more about RE want to look at
S> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

 Not really a superset because it give incompatibilities. For example, 
 [-b], [b-], [-] and []] don't give the same result.

 (a*)* seems not accepted

 Not to speak about (?s)


Guy Decoux