I was trying to use regexec to extract number fields from my data and got an
unexpected response. I can reproduce the issue with this small test case.
regexec("\\d{2,}", "abcd123")
I get a match at position 1, for length 7. Not what I expected.
I do get the expected response (match at position 5, for length 3) when I do
any of the following:
regexec("[0-9]{2,}", "abcd123")
regexec("\\d{1,}", "abcd123")
regexec("\\d+", "abcd123")
I have also verified that regexpr handles this pattern as I expect.
And to add further confusion, this only seems to happen on my Linux machine,
not on Windows.
This seems to be an incredibly specific condition. Anybody know what's going
on?
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Steve Sentoff
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