From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2006-01-07T12:52:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Oniguruma lookbehind question

On Jan 7, 2006, at 3:56, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

>   # Now, do the same thing *or* \S+.  This should, I think,
>   # pick up the abc, def, and mno substrings too.
>
>   re2 = /((?<=")[^"]+(?="))|(\S+)/
>
>   # But it doesn't; the part before the alternation never
>   # matches,

It shouldn't, since pattern-matching goes left-to-right \S will match  
the quote before the first half of the regexp gets a chance, since it  
wants to match the first character _after_ the quote.

-- fxn