gecko/js/tests/ecma_3/RegExp/regress-105972.js

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/*
 * 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 gTestfile = 'regress-105972.js';
var i = 0;
var BUGNUMBER = 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(BUGNUMBER);
  printStatus (summary);
  testRegExp(statusmessages, patterns, strings, actualmatches, expectedmatches);
  exitFunc ('test');
}