From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2008-05-06T12:20:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible regular expression

On May 5, 8:59 pm, Phrogz <phr...@mac.com> wrote:
> On May 5, 7:42 pm, James Sanders <james.sand...@colorado.edu> wrote:
>
> > Ruby's regular expression engine appears to act incorrectly when given a
> > non-greedy match-range of the form {m,n}?
>
> I forgot to note, in my previous reply, that my test results are
> against 1.8.6:
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i686-darwin9.1.0]
>
> Ruby v1.9 (using a different regexp engine, "Oniguruma") does not
> suffer from the same problem.

Rubinius and JRuby don't seem to suffer from it either.

Chris