On Fri, 28 Apr 2017, Fernando Cabral wrote:
> Hi, gambas is new to me, but regex is not so new. But I am baffled with the
> following result:
>
> str = "A#BB##CCC###"
> print RegExp.Replace(str, "[#]+", ";")
> A;BB;;CCC;;;
> str = "A#BB##CCC###"
> print RegExp.Replace(str, "[#][#]*", ";")
> A;BB;;CCC;;;
> str = "A#BB##CCC###"
> print RegExp.Replace(str, "##**", ";")
> A;BB;;CCC;;;
>
> In my opinion, in every example above the result should be:
> A;BB;CC
> Nevertheless, gambas always displays A;BB;CCC;;;.
>
> Am I missing something,, or does gambas has a bug in this point?
>
We had this topic a few days ago [1]. When you use RegExp.Replace(),
the greediness of all quantifiers is inverted. So when you use
"[#]+"
under RegExp.Replace(), this has the same meaning as the expression
(in PCRE syntax)
"[#]+?"
matching lazily (or ungreedily) against the string, which explains
the result you get. If you want greedy behaviour (what you expected),
then you have to use ungreedy quantifiers:
Print RegExp.Replace("A#BB##CCC###", "[#]+?", ";")
Print RegExp.Replace("A#BB##CCC###", "[#][#]*?", ";")
Print RegExp.Replace("A#BB##CCC###", "##*?", ";")
---
A;BB;CCC;
A;BB;CCC;
A;BB;CCC;
Yes, admittedly it is strange behaviour of RegExp.Replace() to invert
the greediness of all quantifiers and it was discovered just a few days
ago. I don't know if it is going to be fixed though. I bet there was a
rationale behind this setting, but we'll have to wait for a comment of
Benoit who wrote the code.
Regards,
Tobi
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/gambas/mailman/message/35802891/
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