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09/15/2017

01:12 PM Ruby master Bug #13892: Matching the end of a string followed by an empty greedy regex and a word boundary (.*\b) fails in all versions >= 1.9

@naruse, k-takata -
Testing with Onigmo, Oniguruma, and php's mb_ereg() this case does indeed fail to match, thoug... jhriggs (Jim Riggs)

12:07 PM Ruby master Bug #13892: Matching the end of a string followed by an empty greedy regex and a word boundary (.*\b) fails in all versions >= 1.9

@naruse -
You might be right. I (shamefully) did not investigate what regex library Ruby is using under the hood. ... jhriggs (Jim Riggs)

09/12/2017

01:02 PM Ruby master Bug #13892 (Closed): Matching the end of a string followed by an empty greedy regex and a word boundary (.*\b) fails in all versions >= 1.9

This is a very specific regex failure that occurs when the final character of the string is matched by the end of a p... jhriggs (Jim Riggs)