In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sergey Samokhodkin writes: >Not convinced yet. I still think there is a bug. >Let's look at the javadoc: ... >I cannot see where the perlre allows the "foo|foot" not to produce the >exact match against "foot", which takes place in the case in question.
I don't see how the javadoc can be any clearer about explaining the behavior. Run this test yourself and see: echo foot | perl -pi -e 's/foo|foot/bar/g' The result will not be bar, it's bart. If you want foo|foot to match foot you've either got to rewrite it as foot|foo or as ^(?:foo|foot)$. For example, echo foot | perl -pi -e 's/^(?:foo|foot)$/bar/g' will produce bar and not bart. >It obviously says about the partial rather than exact match, so >it simply doesn't apply. I don't understand what you mean. Perl expressions either match something or they don't matching something. They don't either exactly match the thing or partially match the thing. foo|foot will never match foot in Perl, plain and simple. It will only ever match foo, as my substitution example showed. Awk is a different matter, because the longest possible match will always be found. daniel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
