[regex-coach] a possible bug in regular expression word boundaries handling

[Edi Weitz]

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
<daniel.letai at opal-systems.co.il> 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.
>
>
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