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#157929 30/08/06 01:09 PM
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Okay, I just realized there's a small bug in mIRC's Regex. (for all of the $reg* functions)

As an example:

(mirc code)
Code:
alias regextest {
  var %text = Just a test. Bust my test.
  echo -ag $regsubex(%text,/(?<=[^J])ust/g,usssst)
}


That will not change "Bust" to "Busssst" as it should. Inserting a space between the ^ and the J seems to "fix" the problem (it apparently just needs TWO characters in it to fix it, one character doesn't seem to make it trigger). I had almost thought, at first, that this was an error somewhere on my behalf, but I made a .pl file (perl script) and put this in it just to double check:

(perl code)
Code:
my $text = "Just a test. Bust my test.";
print "$text\n";
print "Modifying the contents of \$text\n\n";
$text =~ s/(?<=[^J])ust/usssssssst/g;
print "$text\n";


Which outputs:
Quote:
Just a test. Bust my test.
Modifying the contents of $text

Just a test. Busssssssst my test.

#157930 30/08/06 02:30 PM
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I've confirmed this behavior. It looks like a problem in the code that deals with negated character classes within lookbehind structures (positive and negative). Since it works if more than one character is within the negated character class, my guess is that there may be a loop/comparison that starts one integer too high or low.

(?<=[J]) <- works
(?<![J]) <- works
(?<=[^J]) <- fails
(?<![^J]) <- fails

Here is a temp workaround:

(?<=[^JJ]) <- works

-genius_at_work

#157931 30/08/06 04:08 PM
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Thanks this was due to a bug in the PCRE library. I've updated to the latest version which seems to resolve the issue.

#157932 31/08/06 03:49 AM
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Yep, genius_at_work, already had a work around by the time I made that post.

Khaled: Thanks, much appreciated.


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