From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-05-13T12:02:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp: why does (re)* return only last repetition?

On Tue, 13 May 2003 07:56:07 +0900, Mike Campbell wrote:
>> It's the patttern specified specifically: "[a-z\\]". So far as I
>> can tell, the backslash is being interpolated twice (once by
>> String#new and once by Regexp#new). Is this a bug? I'm not sure,
>> but I think so; it doesn't do it twice with "[\\a-z]",
>> "[a-z\\\]", or "[a-z\\\\]".
> Is this with 1.8?  I thought I remembered a thread about some new
> character class "warnings" code that do all sorts of weird unusual
> things that the pre 1.8 versions didn't have.

As I noted to Brian Candler, both 1.6.8 and 1.8.0/2003-05-09.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2003.05.12 at 23:02:05