Re: [Regexp] Possible non-conformance with Perl 5 in java distributionof gnu.regexp

[Cefn Hoile]

I'm pretty sure I tried the code Wes suggested already, but I will 
check.

Sorry not to report the failure in more detail.

The specific failure is when gzip is bounded by two commas, (in other 
words backreference 2 should evaluate to a comma - assuming that the 
comma separated list was valid in the first place). Instead of the 
match being replaced by a comma, it is replaced by the empty string.

Basically the pattern is able to capture the gzip, as well as it's 
preceding and postceding comma, but the replacement ends up wrong. I 
can't get it to replace with a comma, as the perl script does.

Cefn
http://cefn.com

On 28 Jul 2004, at 21:52, jon wrote:

> > I spent ages trying to debug why it didn't work
>
> Could you specifically tell us what didn't work? Compiling? Results? 
> Please
> post to the list the compiler or application execution output. I've 
> seen
> Wes' reply and I don't think that's going to solve your problem, but 
> I'm
> only guessing.
>
> Jon