Re: Regular expression bug?

On Dec 3, 1:47 pm, Gary <g...@castandcrew.com> wrote:
> I believe I've found a bug in the regular expression parsing.  Given
> the search pattern and text below, I'm not getting the behavior that I
> expect.
>
> /\%(^\(\l[a-z0-9_]\{7}\).\{39}\)\@<=\1
>
> Should be matching (only) this entire word, ------+
> and only on the first line.                     __|___
>                                                /      \
> producer      2000                             producer
> no_match      2000                             producer
>
>                                                ^
>                                                |
> Is matching both of these 'p's (only) ---------+

I don't know what's going on (it looks to me like it should work) but
changing the \@<= to \zs at least does what you want.

It does look like a bug, unless someone knows a strange feature of the
\@<= zero-width match that prevents it from acting as expected.

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