Re: RegExp irregularity in JScript

From: Roland Hall (nobody_at_nowhere)
Date: 03/05/04 

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:47:03 -0600

"Steve Fulton" wrote in message
news:%23iM7ZHrAEHA.2720@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
:
: From changing the minimum number of characters in the ".{4,8}" portion of
the
: pattern, it looks like the regular expression succeeds only if the *last
class*
: of characters (i.e. digits, lower case, upper case) in the string is at
least 4
: characters long. All three strings match if the pattern is ".{1,8}"; the
first
: two pass if it's ".{3,8}". What makes this behavior puzzling is if you
capture
: the pattern as a submatch (e.g. "(.{1,8})") the entire string is returned,
not
: just the end of the string!
:
: This looks like a bug in Microsoft's regular expression implementation (it
fails
: in VBScript as well). I'd tell them about it but they've halted
development of
: ActiveX scripting, and since this isn't a security issue I doubt a fix
will be
: forthcoming.

I couldn't get the sub to work either.

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