[TRE-general] libtre capture nonsense

[Ville Laurikari]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 08:28:53PM +0200, Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > regex: (a|ab|aba|baab)*
> > The string "abaab" can be matched in different ways:
[clip]
> > When your tagged DFA has consumed the last character, how does it
> > determine that the submatch to return is "ab", and not "baab"?
>
> Probably I'm doing something wrong, but my test with TRE 0.7.5
> returns the submatch "baab".

No, you're not doing anything wrong.  This is a known issue in TRE.
In a case like this, TRE always returns the longest possible last
match for the repeat.


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