From: Kenneth McDonald <kenneth.m.mcdonald@...>
Date: 2008-09-10T00:35:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Oniguruma question

It was part of a unit testing suite. I did figure out where I was  
going wrong, a silly mistake on my part which I should've been past  
years ago. Thanks for the help.

Ken

On Sep 9, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:

> On 08.09.2008 19:38, Kenneth McDonald wrote:
>> I'm writing a library to make re's easier to use :-) This is in  
>> the  test suite.
>> Thanks for the feedback, that comes as a real surprise to me. So  
>> maybe  I'll try /..+?/
>
> This one won't match after "aa".  Instead it will match "aa".  I do  
> not know what you intend to match so I cannot really comment.  This  
> is clearly a toy example, isn't it?  There are multiple ways to  
> match "bb" in "aabb" and it is completely unclear to me what you are  
> after.
>
> Your original RX literally translated means "match anything which is  
> not preceded by a" which is especially true for every character at  
> the beginning of a string.
>
> Btw, I can recommend "Mastering Regular Expressions" - it is a  
> really good book on the matter.
>
> Kind regards
>
> 	robert
>