Backport #2508: The {n} repetition notation issue in Regexp

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: yugui (Yuki Sonoda)

[katz (katz bo)]

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There seems to be a bug in Ruby 1.9 regarding Regular Expression:

/(io){1}x/ =~ 'ioiox' # => 2 #fine
/(io){2}x/ =~ 'ioiox' # => nil #should be 0
/(io){2,2}x/ =~ 'ioiox'# => nil #should be 0
#below are correct
/(?:io){2}x/ =~ 'ioiox' # => 0
/(io){2}/ =~ 'ioiox' # => 0
/(io){2,}x/ =~ 'ioiox' # => 0
/(io){,2}x/ =~ 'ioiox' # => 0
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[dblack (David Black)]

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Hi --

On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, katz bo wrote:

Bug #2508: The {n} repetition notation issue in Regexp
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2508

Author: katz bo
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
Category: core
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i686-linux]

There seems to be a bug in Ruby 1.9 regarding Regular Expression:

/(io){1}x/ =~ 'ioiox' # => 2 #fine
/(io){2}x/ =~ 'ioiox' # => nil #should be 0
/(io){2,2}x/ =~ 'ioiox'# => nil #should be 0
#below are correct
/(?:io){2}x/ =~ 'ioiox' # => 0
/(io){2}/ =~ 'ioiox' # => 0
/(io){2,}x/ =~ 'ioiox' # => 0
/(io){,2}x/ =~ 'ioiox' # => 0

I would call this a severe bug.

David

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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

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This issue was solved with changeset r26143.
katz, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Category set to core
• Status changed from Closed to Assigned
• Assignee set to shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)

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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Assignee changed from shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe) to yugui (Yuki Sonoda)

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[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Description updated (diff)
• Status changed from Assigned to Closed