From daniel.letai at opal-systems.co.il Mon Nov 15 09:00:28 2010 From: daniel.letai at opal-systems.co.il (Sten Wolf) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:00:28 +0200 Subject: [regex-coach] a possible bug in regular expression word boundaries handling Message-ID: <4CE0F6AC.8090707@checkpalm.com> trying out regex coach I discovered something that might be a bug - the handling of word boundaries \< and \> specifically - trying to match the first word in each line in a multiple line target string: ^\<.*\> treats \< and \> as the characters < and > respectively. From edi at agharta.de Tue Nov 16 13:24:49 2010 From: edi at agharta.de (Edi Weitz) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:24:49 +0100 Subject: [regex-coach] a possible bug in regular expression word boundaries handling In-Reply-To: <4CE0F6AC.8090707@checkpalm.com> References: <4CE0F6AC.8090707@checkpalm.com> Message-ID: Hi, Why did you expect this to work? It is not part of Perl's regex syntax. Cheers, Edi. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Sten Wolf wrote: > trying out regex coach I discovered something that might be a bug - the > handling of word boundaries > > \< and \> > > specifically - trying to match the first word in each line in a multiple > line target string: > > ^\<.*\> > > treats \< and \> as the characters < and > respectively. > > > _______________________________________________ > regex-coach site list > regex-coach at common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/regex-coach >