[REBOL] Re: Matching RE's
From: d4marcus:dtek:chalmers:se at: 24-Mar-2001 18:53
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 [jelinem1--nationwide--com] wrote:
> >> find/case/any/match "user qwerty r" "*ggly"
> == " r"
> That totally boggles my mind. After staring at it for awhile I can almost
> see what it's doing, but it's certainly not the behavior I initially
Yes, I think I can too. But it's almost the opposite to what it really
should do: Compare these ones:
>> find/case/any/match "user" "*e"
== "r"
>> find/case/any/match "user" "*se"
== none
>> find/case/any/match "user" "*ae"
== "r"
If there's more than one character to match, it returns none only if it
matches, otherwise the next one. Opposite! Trying again:
>> find/case/any/match "user" "*user"
== none
>> find/case/any/match "user" "*usar"
== none
>> find/case/any/match "user" "*uaar"
== none
>> find/case/any/match "user" "*aaar"
== ""
No character except the last one must match, otherwise it returns none.
Seems they have inverted the logic somehow. I probably should report this
as a bug.
Marcus
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