From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-05-31T16:28:45+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp operators

Hi,

At Sat, 31 May 2003 08:59:45 +0900,
Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> Mine also does the + and | operators, as well, though; I'm not sure if 
> that's universally useful.

As for +, is it right to just concatinate them?  Regexp#| is
provided in lib/eregex.rb.  And you can see also
<http://member.nifty.ne.jp/nokada/archive/reop.rb>.

> Looks like 1.8 still doesn't catch encoding flag in this case; there  
> doesn't appear to be any '(?' prefix that changes encodings, though, 
> which would be a prerequisite. (Personally, I'm happy with UTF-8. ;)

Current regexp engine (and perhaps Oniguruma too) can not mix
encodings.  Well, would it be better to preserve it and raise
an exception when it doesn't match?

-- 
Nobu Nakada