[erlang-questions] run strange behaviour

[Alexander Petrovsky]

Hi!

I have the regex "^foo (\\w+(\\w* *)*) is an (\\w+(\\w* *)*)", and I get
strange behaviour when I do:

1> re:run(<<"foo bar is a foo bar is a big yellow boat or">>, <<"^foo
(\\w+(\\w* *)*) is a (\\w+(\\w* *)*)">>, [global, {capture, [1,3],
binary}]).
{match,[[<<"bar is a foo bar">>,<<"big yellow boat or">>]]}

2> re:run(<<"foo bar is a foo bar is a big yellow boat or sub">>, <<"^foo
(\\w+(\\w* *)*) is a (\\w+(\\w* *)*)">>, [global, {capture, [1,3],
binary}]).
nomatch

I tested this regexp in clojure and python:

=> (re-matches #"foo (\w+(\w* *)*) is a (\w+(\w* *)*)" "foo bar is a foo
bar is a big yellow boat or")
["foo bar is a foo bar is a big yellow boat or" "bar is a foo bar" "" "big
yellow boat or" ""]

=> (re-matches #"foo (\w+(\w* *)*) is a (\w+(\w* *)*)" "foo bar is a foo
bar is a big yellow boat or sub")
["foo bar is a foo bar is a big yellow boat or sub" "bar is a foo bar" ""
"big yellow boat or sub" ""]

>>> import re
>>> p = re.compile('foo (\w+(\w* *)*) is a (\w+(\w* *)*)')
>>> p.match("foo bar is a foo bar is a big yellow boat or")
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x100293c00>
>>> p.match("foo bar is a foo bar is a big yellow boat or sub")
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x100293ab0>

Can someone explain me, why I get on second string "foo bar is a foo bar is
a big yellow boat or sub" nomatch? This is a bug?


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Петровский Александр / Alexander Petrovsky,

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