From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-09-03T01:12:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:4754] Re: Possible regex bug?

ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:

> >>>>> "D" == Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:
> 
> D> However... The point of my original post was not to say that there are 
> D> no differences between Perl and Ruby regexps, but to say that the
> D> behavior of String.split was consistent with Perl's when given a
> D> pattern that matched a zero length string. That seemed to be Conrad's
> D> concern.
> 
>  Yes but perl and ruby don't have the same notion of zero-length match

d'accord. That's true, but kind of orthogonal to the point that Conrad 
raised.

Perhaps we need a FAQ entry about zero length matches?


Dave