[cl-ppcre-devel] Matching problem while using \s (?)

[Mac Chan]

you need to double escape \\s, since the lisp reader will consume one
and cl-ppcre:scan-to-strings will only see s.


On 4/27/06, Daniel Caune <daniel.caune at ubisoft.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm facing a strange result while trying to scan a string:
>
> CL-USER> (defconstant +iso-8601-regex+
> "([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)[\sT]*([0-9]+):([0-9]+):([0-9]+)[+-]([0-9]+)"
> )
> +ISO-8601-REGEX+
>
> CL-USER> (cl-ppcre:scan-to-strings +iso-8601-regex+ "2006-04-13
> 00:00:00+00")
> NIL
>
> CL-USER> (cl-ppcre:scan-to-strings +iso-8601-regex+
> "2006-04-13T00:00:00+00")
> "2006-04-13T00:00:00+00"
> #("2006" "04" "13" "00" "00" "00" "00")
>
>
> For some reasons, \s seems not to match a whitespace character, unless
> the space within "2006-04-13 00:00:00+00" is not the space cl-ppcre
> expects (encoding on Linux?! Hmm... a space is more likely to be encoded
> with 0x20, isn't it?!).
>
> I tried to match both "2006-04-13 00:00:00+00" and
> "2006-04-13T00:00:00+00" with the Regex Coach (on Windows), and it works
> perfectly with that same regex!
>
> Any idea?  What can I check?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> --
> Daniel CAUNE
> Ubisoft Online Technology
> (514) 4090 2040 ext. 5418
>
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