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Re: Regex bug in 5.10 (was: Using Look-ahead and Look-behind)

by almut (Canon)
on May 08, 2009 at 15:06 UTC ( [id://762846]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Regex bug in 5.10 (was: Using Look-ahead and Look-behind)
in thread Using Look-ahead and Look-behind

...which (in pre-5.10) will output empty strings every time.

With 5.10.0, /(?=(.*?))/g; outputs one empty string.  And I can confirm the behavior reported by jds17 with /(?=(.*))/g.

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