From: Aisha Fenton <aisha.fenton@...>
Date: 2010-09-08T17:42:07+09:00
Subject: Regex breaks when string contains binary data

Hi,
I can't see why the following Regex isn't working as expected. Maybe a
bug in ruby?

puts "345HI".match(/HI|BYE/).inspect
> HI
puts "\345HI".match(/HI|BYE/).inspect
> nil

What I expected was the second regex to find "HI" in the string too. Why
I need this, is that I'm printing data to stdout that will contain some
binary characters, and I'm using a regex to escape the newline
characters that it maybe contains.

I'm using Ruby 1.8.7

Thanks,
Aish
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