From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2006-07-12T01:10:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby regexp spec. (was: OT: Regexp buddy)

On 7/11/06, Daniel Martin <martin@snowplow.org> wrote:
> Speaking of learning regexps for ruby, is there somewhere a
> comprehensive list of just what syntax ruby's regular expression
> engine does and doesn't support?  I can't find any documentation, for
> example, that shows that ruby's regexp engine supports perl's "don't
> backtrack" notation (?>pat), but that it does not support the
> "look-behind" features found in perl, python, and java's regular
> expression engines.
>
> I mean, I suppose I can go and try ever construct mentioned in perlre
> in irb and see what happens, but it'd be nice if the documentation
> existed somewhere.


Have a look here:

http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/doc/RE.txt

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Simon Strandgaard