From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-10-27T20:38:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression quirk?

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Robert Klemme
> <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> AFAIK, there are no possessive quantifiers in 1.9,
>>
>> You are misinformed.  Where did you get that information?  Please see:
>>
>> http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/doc/RE.txt

One more thing, Read Ruby
(http://ruby.runpaint.org/regexps#quantifiers) doesn't even mention
possessive quantifiers. Hmmm.

Not everything in Oniguruma is supported in ruby. I guess I need to
verify this further.

Thanks,
Ammar