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Jordan Ritter  
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 More options Jul 12 2011, 8:20 pm
From: Jordan Ritter <jordan.rit...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:20:06 -0700
Local: Tues, Jul 12 2011 8:20 pm
Subject: Re: Regex bug?

This might be the long-standing/known "Ruby's regex engine just ain't that great" problem: https://gist.github.com/558388

Both 1.8 and 1.9's RE engines suck.  Too bad there's no PCRE integration (doesn't have the problem).

--jordan

On Jul 12, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Eric Wong wrote:

> John Nunemaker <nunema...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If I need to post this somewhere else or any more information is
>> needed, just let me know.

> Ouch, this affects Ruby 1.9.x, too.  Can you report this to
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/ and make sure the Ruby core team
> looks at it?

> --
> Eric Wong


 
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