Thanks José.  This is why I asked before submitting a bug.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:50 PM, José Valim <[email protected]>
wrote:

> If you call Regex.compile, then you are passing a string which means \w
> must now be \\w. If you just pass \w, you can see how it becomes simply w,
> because \ was discarded by the *string* and never made to the regex compile.
>
> Since \d represents the delete escape character, it becomes the codepoint
> 007F before it ever enters the regex and so the regex needs to escape it
> using \x to avoid ambiguity with its own \d, so not a bug. :)
>
> On Monday, June 6, 2016, Onorio Catenacci <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yeah I think you've hit on the problem Johnny.  It does appear the \d is
>> the issue.
>>
>> iex(10)> {:ok, rc} = Regex.compile("\d")
>> {:ok, ~r/\x7F/}
>> iex(11)> {:ok, rc} = Regex.compile("\w")
>> {:ok, ~r/w/}
>>
>> As I say, I can certainly do this without having to compile the regex but
>> it sure looks like a bug (albeit a minor one as far as I can tell).
>>
>> --
>> Onorio
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Johnny Winn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> This would be a bug from what I can see. the `\` seems to be giving
>>> `Regex.compile/1` a fit.
>>>
>>> On a mac, Elixir 1.2.5:
>>>
>>> iex(1)> {:ok, rc} = Regex.compile("(?<version>\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+)*$")
>>> {:ok, ~r/(?<version>\x7F+.\x7F+.\x7F+.\x7F+)*$/}
>>> iex(2)> {:ok, rc} = Regex.compile("(?<version>\d+.\w+.\w+.\w+)*$")
>>> {:ok, ~r/(?<version>\x7F+.w+.w+.w+)*$/}
>>>
>>> If Jose is ok with you submitting the bug, I can take a look at it :)
>>>
>>> ~ Johnny
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Onorio Catenacci <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if this is a bug or simply me misunderstanding the mechanism
>>>> of regex's.  I hope no one minds me asking about this here so I don't file
>>>> a bug if it's just a misunderstanding on my part.
>>>>
>>>> On Windows 10 with Elixir 1.2.6, I've been working on a regex to pull
>>>> the version portion of a string.  This works:
>>>>
>>>> iex(4)> v =
>>>> Regex.named_captures(~r/(?<version>\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+)*$/,"Version=15.0.4815.1002")
>>>> %{"version" => "15.0.4815.1002"}
>>>> iex(5)> v
>>>> %{"version" => "15.0.4815.1002"}
>>>> iex(6)> v["version"]
>>>> "15.0.4815.1002"
>>>>
>>>> But as I was playing with the regex, I found this which struck me as
>>>> sort of curious:
>>>>
>>>> iex(7)> {:ok, rc} = Regex.compile("(?<version>\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+)*$")
>>>> {:ok, ~r/(?<version>\x7F+.\x7F+.\x7F+.\x7F+)*$/}
>>>> iex(8)> rc
>>>> ~r/(?<version>\x7F+.\x7F+.\x7F+.\x7F+)*$/
>>>>
>>>> Which when I try with named_captures gives me this:
>>>>
>>>> iex(9)> v = Regex.named_captures(rc,"Version=15.0.4815.1002")
>>>> %{"version" => ""}
>>>>
>>>> Knowing this is Windows 10 and knowing the issues we've had with
>>>> unicode over the years, I ran chcp 65001. The problem still occurs.  It's a
>>>> minor issue because as you can see, I've got a working regex.
>>>>
>>>> So am I misunderstanding something or is this a bug?  Any advice would
>>>> be appreciated.
>>>>
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