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Bug #13671

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Regexp with lookbehind and case-insensitivity raises RegexpError only on strings with certain characters

Added by dschweisguth (Dave Schweisguth) almost 7 years ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

Status:
Assigned
Target version:
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[ruby-core:81742]

Description

Here is a test program:

def test(description)
  begin
    yield
    puts "#{description} is OK"
  rescue RegexpError
    puts "#{description} raises RegexpError"
  end
end

test("ass, case-insensitive, special") { /(?<!ass)/i =~ '✨' }
test("bss, case-insensitive, special") { /(?<!bss)/i =~ '✨' }
test("as,  case-insensitive, special") { /(?<!as)/i  =~ '✨' }
test("ss,  case-insensitive, special") { /(?<!ss)/i  =~ '✨' }
test("ass, case-sensitive,   special") { /(?<!ass)/  =~ '✨' }
test("ass, case-insensitive, regular") { /(?<!ass)/i =~ 'x' }

Running the test program with Ruby 2.4.1 (macOS) gives

ass, case-insensitive, special raises RegexpError
bss, case-insensitive, special raises RegexpError
as,  case-insensitive, special is OK
ss,  case-insensitive, special is OK
ass, case-sensitive,   special is OK
ass, case-insensitive, regular is OK

The RegexpError is "invalid pattern in look-behind: /(?<!ass)/i (RegexpError)"

Side note: in the real code in which I found this error I was able to work around the error by using (?i) after the lookbehind instead of //i.

Running the test program with Ruby 2.3.4 does not report any RegexpErrors.

I think this is a regression, although I might be wrong and it might be saving me from an incorrect result with certain strings.


Files

test.rb (531 Bytes) test.rb Same test program as in the description dschweisguth (Dave Schweisguth), 06/22/2017 11:18 PM

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Related to Ruby master - Bug #14838: RegexpError with double "s" in look-behind assertion in case-insensitive unicode regexpOpenActions
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