Isn't Javascript supposed to support Perl-compatible regular expressions?
Perl says the answer is: 5
perl -e 'print scalar split(/\b/, "hello there Opera")'
On 6/10/07, Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
WWIED? What would IE do?
On 6/10/07, Matt Stith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> o.O damn, like you said, i didnt know there was that big of a
> difference!
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> On 6/10/07, Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
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> > safari says 3 for
> > javascript:alert("hello there Opera".split(/(\s+)/).length)
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> > On 6/10/07, Matt Stith < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > why not just use /(\s+)/ in firefox too then? It gives me the
> > > correct number of 5.
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> > > On 6/10/07, Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > > javascript:alert("hello there Opera".split(/\b/).length)
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> > > > Firefox says 5 , safari says 6, Opera says 15!
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> > > > it really got me confused while writing some jQuery code!
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> > > > now I use $.browser.opera ? /(\s+)/ : /\b/ ; instead.
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> > > > Ouch, I didn't realize there was that much of a difference!
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