[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1390?page=comments#action_63591 ] cargilld commented on XERCESC-1390: -----------------------------------
Hi Dave, I reviewed the patch and found some tests to exercise your change and it seems to work fine. Please go ahead and commit your patch. David > Regular expressions with unions do not work properly with replacing and > tokenizing. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: XERCESC-1390 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1390 > Project: Xerces-C++ > Type: Bug > Components: Utilities > Versions: 2.6.0 > Reporter: David Bertoni > Assignee: David Bertoni > Priority: Critical > Attachments: patch.txt > > Consider the following regular expression: > "(ab) | (a)" > with the following input string: > "abracadabra" > If you use an instance the RegularExpression class to replace any matching > substrings with the empty string, the result should be the following string: > "rcdr" > Instead, just the last "a" in the string is replaced: > "abracadabr" > If you use the same RegularExpression instance to tokenize the expression, > the result should be the following set of strings: > "" > "r" > "c" > "d" > "r" > "" > Instead, the result is > "abracadabr" > "" > I will attach a proposed patch, but I don't know this code well, so it would > be great if someone could review it. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
