/* * A naive implementation never finishes matching: '(x*)*' against the input 'y', * because eventually the inner quantifier would match the empty string, which * would then match forever. Other empty quantifier cases are also tested. * * Note that Python rejects such regexps: * * >>> re.compile(r'(x*)*') * Traceback (most recent call last): * File "", line 1, in * File "/usr/lib/python2.6/re.py", line 190, in compile * return _compile(pattern, flags) * File "/usr/lib/python2.6/re.py", line 245, in _compile * raise error, v # invalid expression * sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat * */ /*--- { "knownissue": true } ---*/ var t; /*=== xxx xxx string string string string ===*/ /* greedy matching, (x*) will match 'xxx', outer quantifier will repeat once */ t = /(x*)*/.exec('xxx'); print(t[0], t[1]); /* FIXME: check behavior below against E5 specification, both Rhino and Smjs fail */ /* here x* should match zero times, leaving (x*) capture the empty string */ t = /(x*)*/.exec('y'); print(t[0], typeof t[0]); print(t[1], typeof t[1]); /* same as above */ t = /(x*)*/.exec(''); print(t[0], typeof t[0]); print(t[1], typeof t[1]); /*=== xyz string xyz string null object xyz string xyz string null object ===*/ t = /(?:(?=x)){1000}xyz/.exec('xyz'); print(t[0], typeof t[0]); t = /(?:(?=x)){1000}xyz/.exec('xyyxyz'); print(t[0], typeof t[0]); t = /(?:(?=x)){1000}xyz/.exec('xyy'); print(t, typeof t); t = /(?:(?=x))+xyz/.exec('xyz'); print(t[0], typeof t[0]); t = /(?:(?=x))+xyz/.exec('xyyxyz'); print(t[0], typeof t[0]); t = /(?:(?=x))+xyz/.exec('xy'); print(t, typeof t);