From: Chris Morris <the.chrismo@...>
Date: 2007-10-27T06:12:46+09:00
Subject: Newlines included in bracket negation

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(... that subject probably makes no sense ...)

Anyway, I have some unexpected (to me) behavior in the following regexp.
This example is contrived, but based on a real need. Can anyone explain why
the result is multi-line, even though the re is not?

require 'test/unit'

class TestRE < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def test_newlines
    src = "happy\n\nbirthday"
    assert_equal("hday", src.scan(/h[^x]*?day/).to_s)
  end
end

produces

Finished in 0.031 seconds.

  1) Failure:
test_newlines_consumed_in_not_section(TestRE) ...
<"hday"> expected but was
<"happy\n\nbirthday">.


-- 
Chris
http://clabs.org

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