From: Olonichev Sergei <olonichev@...>
Date: 2002-03-01T21:50:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Regular Expression problem


And It also works badlly if I put "(:?" instead of "(".


"Stephan K�mper" <Stephan.Kaemper@Schleswig-Holstein.de> wrote in message
news:3C7F741A.6374C86C@Schleswig-Holstein.de...
> Olonichev Sergei wrote:
> >
> > Ok.
> >
> > 3.
> > echo "=XX=================================" | ruby -e 'a=$stdin.gets; if
a
> > =~ "X((.)*..?.)+X" then puts $& end'
> >
> > Hangs up !!!
> >
> > ruby -v
> >
> > ruby 1.6.2 (2000-12-18) [i386-cygwin]
> >
>
> BTW, this terminates properly on my machine with �n approx. 2 hours (which
> shows how baldy designed the RegEx is...)
>
> Note that I'm using a more recent Ruby version:
>
> [c:\]ruby -v
> ruby 1.6.6 (2001-12-26) [i586-mswin32]
>
> Happy rubying!
>
> Stephan