[fpc-pascal] A Regular Expression failing on the borders of words

[luciano de souza]

Well, I need to study more. I can't understand what is wrong. The
match starts with a blank space: \s+. Some string follows: .*. And it
ends in the border of word: \b. So, (\s+.*\b)*, for me, should return:
+ABC +DEF. If "@" is not present, why the rest of the string was
matched.

My knowledge about Regular Expressions is small, so I really need to study more.

2014-04-10 4:16 GMT-03:00, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 02:43:41 -0300
> luciano de souza <luchyanus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>[...]
>> r.expression := '^(x\s+)*(\([A-E]\))*(\s*.*\.)+(\s+\+.*\b)*(\s+ at .*\b)*$';
>> if r.exec('x (A) Write a report. +ABC +DEF @John @Mary') then
>
> The (\s+\+.*\b) matches '+ABC +DEF @John @Mary'.
>
> Mattias
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Luciano de Souza