/* * The contents of this file are subject to the Netscape Public * License Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file * except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of * the License at http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/ * * Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" * basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either expressed * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing * rights and limitations under the License. * * The Original Code is mozilla.org code. * * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Netscape * Communications Corporation. Portions created by Netscape are * Copyright (C) 1998 Netscape Communications Corporation. * All Rights Reserved. * * Contributor(s): mozilla@pdavis.cx, pschwartau@netscape.com * Date: 22 October 2001 * * SUMMARY: Regression test for Bugzilla bug 105972: * "/^.*?$/ will not match anything" * * See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105972 */ //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- var i = 0; var bug = 105972; var summary = 'Regression test for Bugzilla bug 105972'; var cnEmptyString = ''; var status = ''; var statusmessages = new Array(); var pattern = ''; var patterns = new Array(); var string = ''; var strings = new Array(); var actualmatch = ''; var actualmatches = new Array(); var expectedmatch = ''; var expectedmatches = new Array(); /* * The bug: this match was coming up null in Rhino and SpiderMonkey. * It should match the whole string. The reason: * * The * operator is greedy, but *? is non-greedy: it will stop * at the simplest match it can find. But the pattern here asks us * to match till the end of the string. So the simplest match must * go all the way out to the end, and *? has no choice but to do it. */ status = inSection(1); pattern = /^.*?$/; string = 'Hello World'; actualmatch = string.match(pattern); expectedmatch = Array(string); addThis(); /* * Leave off the '$' condition - here we expect the empty string. * Unlike the above pattern, we don't have to match till the end of * the string, so the non-greedy operator *? doesn't try to... */ status = inSection(2); pattern = /^.*?/; string = 'Hello World'; actualmatch = string.match(pattern); expectedmatch = Array(cnEmptyString); addThis(); /* * Try '$' combined with an 'or' operator. * * The operator *? will consume the string from left to right, * attempting to satisfy the condition (:|$). When it hits ':', * the match will stop because the operator *? is non-greedy. * * The submatch $1 = (:|$) will contain the ':' */ status = inSection(3); pattern = /^.*?(:|$)/; string = 'Hello: World'; actualmatch = string.match(pattern); expectedmatch = Array('Hello:', ':'); addThis(); /* * Again, '$' combined with an 'or' operator. * * The operator * will consume the string from left to right, * attempting to satisfy the condition (:|$). When it hits ':', * the match will not stop since * is greedy. The match will * continue until it hits $, the end-of-string boundary. * * The submatch $1 = (:|$) will contain the empty string * conceived to exist at the end-of-string boundary. */ status = inSection(4); pattern = /^.*(:|$)/; string = 'Hello: World'; actualmatch = string.match(pattern); expectedmatch = Array(string, cnEmptyString); addThis(); //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- test(); //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- function addThis() { statusmessages[i] = status; patterns[i] = pattern; strings[i] = string; actualmatches[i] = actualmatch; expectedmatches[i] = expectedmatch; i++; } function test() { enterFunc ('test'); printBugNumber (bug); printStatus (summary); testRegExp(statusmessages, patterns, strings, actualmatches, expectedmatches); exitFunc ('test'); }