Bug #1572: Regex range: upper range limit apparently not applied on digit matching

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.0 (2008-06-20 revision 17482) [i486-linux]

[kugel (Thomas Martitz)]

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I have this regex /fs[# ]{0,2}[\d]{3,6}/

Out of array = ["FS#", "FS#10048", "within a fs#10048 sentence", "fs# 9919", "fs100", "fs wow", "fs 1", "fs#132929921 "] it matches the array[1], array[2], array[3], array[4] and array[-1].

It shouldn't match the last element, as I maxed the repitions of \d to 6.
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[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

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Take a try to match /foo/ over "foo921 ".

It's a nature of a regex.
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[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

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Hi,

At Sat, 6 Jun 2009 00:58:23 +0900,
Thomas Martitz wrote in [ruby-core:23716]:

I have this regex /fs[# ]{0,2}[\d]{3,6}/

Use /fs[# ]{0,2}\d{3,6}(?!\d)/i or /fs[# ]{0,2}\d{3,6}\b/i.

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Nobu Nakada

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