[TRE-general] Assertion test

[Ville Laurikari]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:39:55PM +0200, Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
> TRE 0.7.5:
>    test_comp("\\<.", REG_EXTENDED, 0);       /* test 1 */
>    test_exec(";xaa", 0, REG_OK, 1, 2, END);  /* test 2 */
>
> The second test fails because the leading semicolon is matched.
> Is this the intended behavior?

I checked the code, and the \< assertion always matches at the
beginning of the string.  That's a bug, \< should match the beginning
of the string only if the first character is a word character.

It was easy to fix so this will be fixed in the next release.

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