AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Tue Oct 25 18:39:08 EDT 2005


On 10/25/05 5:15 PM, "Marielle Lange" <mlange at lexicall.org> wrote:

>> So AFAICT we have a full and complete PCRE implementation here,
>> with no
>> 'real' bugs associated with it.

What I meant was that no bugs were associated with it in Bugzilla.
 
> I fully agree on the full and complete PCRE. Now I know it is there,
> I tested it and all the syntactic variations I know about are there.
> 
> But how do I need to call this if not a bug?
> 
> put "_" & replacetext("A C", "^ *", "")    -> _C
> put "_" & replacetext("A C", "^", "")      -> _

This sounds like a bug that should be put into Bugzilla so that Mark can
work to fix it (or explain it if there's a reasonable explanation).


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com





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