Re: [Chicken-users] Problem with string-match?

[felix winkelmann]

On 5/3/05, Alejandro Forero Cuervo <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, I am getting strange behaviour in string-match: (string-match
> "a|b" "ax") is evaluating to ("a") (rather than #f).  Interestingly,
> (string-match "a|b" "xb") evaluates to ("b").  However, using "(a|b)"
> as the regular expression fixes things.
> 
> It seems string-match turns regexp into (string-append "^" regexp
> "$"), which, obviously, doesn't work in this case.

Yes, this is exactly the case. I haven't found any better solution yet.


cheers,
felix