From: Filipe <filipedlarcanjo@...>
Date: 2007-10-05T10:35:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expresion Error?

On Sep 30, 5:52 am, "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <ed.oda...@wonado.de>
wrote:
> Filipe wrote:
> > puts showRE("Hello", /(\w)\1/)          #=> no match
> > puts showRE("Hello", /(\w{1,1})\1/)   #=> He<<ll>>o
>
> Both return "He<<ll>>o" on my machine too (Windows2000 -
> OneClickInstaller 186-25).
>
> Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

looks like the ruby interpreter I was running was jruby, under
netbeans. Unfourtunately, I didn't realize it at first.