From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-02-01T05:06:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Premature end of regular expression with non-ascii chara


On Jan 31, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Nuralanur@aol.com wrote:

> Dear Nick,
>
> I'm glad things finally worked out for you.
> Actually, I things like '\352' do not to split any further (at  
> least on my
> system (cygwin 6.7.0.0-6) on Windows XP),
> this seems to be some  encoding for "�" etc. that is  Windows- 
> specific.
> In particular, it is not equivalent to a string composed of '\',   
> '3','5','2'
> (you would have to double the '\' in the regexp if you were searching
> for a string '\352' in a text).
>
> But the line
>
> splitted_text=text.split(/(?=.)/)
>
> should produce an Array with the individual letters in the string.
> That involves a concept about regexps called zero-width positive
> lookahead (see _http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html_
> (http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html) ).
>
> Please let us all know if you still encounter  problems.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Axel

Zero width positive lookahead is a little overkill, split(//) works  
just as well, AFAIK