Issue #19283 has been updated by Sho (Shohei Nakano).
This case didn't become error after I tested this regex error case with ruby master
branch(https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/5abb2ef1532e52f3e5fb63ea25e90a72….
This issue may be resolved by Bug #19273 and
PR(https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/7035).
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Bug #19283: Regex error on ruby 3.2
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19283#change-101423
* Author: Sho (Shohei Nakano)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* ruby -v: ruby 3.2.0 (2022-12-25 revision a528908271) [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN
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There is an regex error pattern on ruby 3.2.0. This pattern is success on ruby 3.1.3.
Is this a bug? Or, is ruby 3.2.0 correct?
- ruby 3.2.0
```
# ruby -v
ruby 3.2.0 (2022-12-25 revision a528908271) [x86_64-linux]
(byebug) MAX_CHAR_LENGTH = 8
8
(byebug) WHITE_SPACE_STR = '[[:space:]] \uFEFF\u00A0\u200B\u180E'
"[[:space:]] \\uFEFF\\u00A0\\u200B\\u180E"
(byebug) r =
/\A((.{,#{MAX_CHAR_LENGTH}}x)|(.{,#{MAX_CHAR_LENGTH}}a[#{WHITE_SPACE_STR}]+b.{,#{MAX_CHAR_LENGTH}}))[#{WHITE_SPACE_STR}]*\Z/ix
/\A((.{,8}x)|(.{,8}a[[[:space:]] \uFEFF\u00A0\u200B\u180E]+b.{,8}))[[[:space:]] \uFEFF\u00A0\u200B\u180E]*\Z/ix
(byebug) r.match('a b')
#<MatchData "a b" 1:"a b" 2:nil 3:"a b">
(byebug) MAX_CHAR_LENGTH = 9
9
(byebug) r =
/\A((.{,#{MAX_CHAR_LENGTH}}x)|(.{,#{MAX_CHAR_LENGTH}}a[#{WHITE_SPACE_STR}]+b.{,#{MAX_CHAR_LENGTH}}))[#{WHITE_SPACE_STR}]*\Z/ix
/\A((.{,9}x)|(.{,9}a[[[:space:]] \uFEFF\u00A0\u200B\u180E]+b.{,9}))[[[:space:]] \uFEFF\u00A0\u200B\u180E]*\Z/ix
(byebug) r.match('a b')
nil
```
- ruby 3.1.3
```
# ruby -v
ruby 3.1.3p185 (2022-11-24 revision 1a6b16756e) [x86_64-linux]
(byebug) MAX_CHAR_LENGTH = 8
8
(byebug) WHITE_SPACE_STR = '[[:space:]] \uFEFF\u00A0\u200B\u180E'
"[[:space:]] \\uFEFF\\u00A0\\u200B\\u180E"
(byebug) r =
/\A((.{,#{MAX_CHAR_LENGTH}}x)|(.{,#{MAX_CHAR_LENGTH}}a[#{WHITE_SPACE_STR}]+b.{,#{MAX_CHAR_LENGTH}}))[#{WHITE_SPACE_STR}]*\Z/ix
/\A((.{,8}x)|(.{,8}a[[[:space:]] \uFEFF\u00A0\u200B\u180E]+b.{,8}))[[[:space:]] \uFEFF\u00A0\u200B\u180E]*\Z/ix
(byebug) r.match('a b')
#<MatchData "a b" 1:"a b" 2:nil 3:"a b">
(byebug) MAX_CHAR_LENGTH = 9
9
(byebug) r =
/\A((.{,#{MAX_CHAR_LENGTH}}x)|(.{,#{MAX_CHAR_LENGTH}}a[#{WHITE_SPACE_STR}]+b.{,#{MAX_CHAR_LENGTH}}))[#{WHITE_SPACE_STR}]*\Z/ix
/\A((.{,9}x)|(.{,9}a[[[:space:]] \uFEFF\u00A0\u200B\u180E]+b.{,9}))[[[:space:]] \uFEFF\u00A0\u200B\u180E]*\Z/ix
(byebug) r.match('a b')
#<MatchData "a b" 1:"a b" 2:nil 3:"a b">
```
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