[Glass] Bug in Regex?

Mariano Martinez Peck marianopeck at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 12:33:08 PST 2019


BTW, I am CCing GemStone mailing list too because it answers false there
too.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 5:26 PM Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Look at this case:
>
> `'25' matchesRegex: '([0-9]|[1-9][0-9])' -> false`
> `'25' matchesRegex: '([1-9][0-9]|[0-9])' -> true`
>
> That is, ( a | b ) is not euqal to ( b | a ) " a or b is not equal to b or
> a" and should describe a range of 0 to 99.
>
> I don't understand why the first sentence answers false. Even Pharo 1.1
> answers false (so this is very very old behavior). I checked on other
> dialects and it answers true. I then checked here [1] and it also find
> matches.
>
> So...do you see some rational explanation or sounds like a bug?
>
> [1] https://regex101.com/r/MqVXz8/1
>
> --
> Mariano
> https://twitter.com/MartinezPeck
> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>


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