From: "Zeno R.R. Davatz" <zdavatz@...>
Date: 2011-02-22T01:40:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expression help - Replacing Regexp that worked with Oniguruma in 1.8.6

Dear Robert

On 21 Feb., 03:15, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Zeno Davatz <zdav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On our way to shifting to Ruby 1.8.7 - away from the beloved
> > Oniguruma-Patch - I am tripping over our usefull regular expression used
> > in Ruby 1.8.6 - so if anybody is strong in refactoring regular
> > expressions, please let me know.
>
> > sample one:
>
> >http://choddb.rubyforge.org/ODDB/SwissmedicPlugin.html
>
> > %r{excipiens\s+(ad|pro)\s+(?<galform>((?!\bpro\b)[^.])+)}u
>
> > and
>
> > %r{pro\s+(?<scale>(?<qty>[\d.,]+)\s*(?<unit>[kcmuµn]?[glh]))}u
>
> > And this one on line 148
>
> >http://url.ba/kxez
>
> > All three samples need to work in Ruby 1.8.7 and in 1.9.2.
>
> > They currently work perfectly fine in Ruby 1.8.6 with the beloved
> > Oniguruma-Patch V2.5.9
>
> > Any hints or Feedback is welcome.
>
> Can you give hints about what exactly you are asking?  Do you have
> syntax errors, do the expressions not match?  What is the reason for
> your posting?

Basically our software does not start-up with Ruby 1.8.7 and with Ruby
1.9.2 as Oniguruma is missing.

> Ideally you would provide sample code and text to match.

Ok, I will try to produce these beyond what I already supplied above.

Best
Zeno