From: Shashank Date <ADATE@...>
Date: 2002-09-18T08:48:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression bug, or feature?


"Sean Russell" <ser@germane-software.com> wrote in message
news:83173408.0209171521.7e752f4f@posting.google.com...

> Notice that there's a CR between %q{"TestSuite"} and %q{classpath}.

on ruby 1.7.2 (2002-07-02) [i386-mswin32] it hung even ** without ** the CR
and the /mu
like so:

src = '<hosted class="com.firsthop.mg.gui.Servlet" product="TestSuite"
classpath'
src =~
/^<((?:[\w:][-\w\d.]*:)?[\w:][-\w\d.]*)\s*((((["']).*?\5)|[^\/'">]*)*?)(\/)?
>/

Weird !