From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-12-12T02:56:59+09:00
Subject: [BUG] greedy gsub



this looks like a bug to me:


~/eg/ruby > cat bug.rb

  # greedy gsub works fine a bos
  k1, p1 = '=foo', %r/^(=*)/
  p(p1.match(k1).to_a)
  p(k1.gsub(p1, '!'))

  # greedy gsub fails at eos
  k0, p0 = 'foo=', %r/(=*)$/
  p(p0.match(k0).to_a)
  p(k0.gsub(p0, '!'))

~/eg/ruby > ruby bug.rb

  ["=", "="]
  "!foo"
  ["=", "="]
  "foo!!"

~/eg/ruby > ruby -v
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-10-15) [i686-linux]



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