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Wrong treatment of extremely simple regular expression

           Summary: Wrong treatment of extremely simple regular expression
           Product: Regexp
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Other
        AssignedTo: regexp-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: robert.rodewald@kopsis.com


The extremely simple regular expression "^\w{0,5}$" will compile but instead of 
matching "", "aaa" and not "aaaaaa" it doesn't match "" and matches "aaaaaa" 
instead. This is a problem that only occurs when the lower boundary is zero. In 
this case both boundaries are increased by 1. This is totally different from 
what any regular expression package I know does.

Robert

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