Environment:
CentOS 4.2 (RHES4 clone)
Ruby 1.8.4
Rails 1.0
I am having a small difficulty with case sensitive matching in some
ruby code:
f_nam_re = Regexp.new(f_nam_re_s,"x")
produces these test results:
The passed regexp: ^QPCCCMR[[:digit:]]$
The regexp used is:
/^QPCCCMR[[:digit:]]$/i
$= is false
qpcccmr1 matches
QPCCCMR1 matches
QPCCMMR1 does not match
qpCCCMR1 matches
QPCCCMRC does not match
QPCCCMR1.csv does not match
QPCCCMR9 matches
XXQPCCCMR9 does not match
QPCCCMR9yyy does not match
XyZQPCCCMR3AbC does not match
However, just removing the "x"
f_nam_re = Regexp.new(f_nam_re_s)
Produces this from the same test suite:
The passed regexp: ^QPCCCMR[[:digit:]]$
The regexp used is:
/^QPCCCMR[[:digit:]]$/
$= is false
qpcccmr1 does not match
QPCCCMR1 matches
QPCCMMR1 does not match
qpCCCMR1 does not match
QPCCCMRC does not match
QPCCCMR1.csv does not match
QPCCCMR9 matches
XXQPCCCMR9 does not match
QPCCCMR9yyy does not match
XyZQPCCCMR3AbC does not match
So, why does enabling regexp extensions force case insensitivity?
Further, once it is turned on in this fashion I cannot seem to get
it switched off even when using the (?-i:) construct.
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Regards,
Jim
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