[kupu-dev] Kupu and Safari

[Duncan Booth]

Johnny deBris <johnny at debris.demon.nl> wrote:

> Duncan Booth wrote:
>> 
>> String.prototype.strip = function() {
>>     var stripspace = /^\s*([\s\S]*?)\s*$/;
>>     return stripspace.exec(this)[1];
>> };
>>
> 
> I'm a bit confused here... I would think that:
> 
> /^\s*(.*?)\s*$/
> 
> would have the same result as the current regexp, but this turns out not
> to be true for some reason.

A dot won't match a newline.

> However, since I assume that [\s\S] should
> match any character, and that \u2026 breaks on the \S, perhaps something
> like:
> 
> /\s*([\d\D]*?)\s*$/
> 
> might work?

That might work.

> Just a wild guess... If not, then perhaps:
> 
> /\s*([\s\S\u2026]*?)\s*$/
> 
That won't work: it seems to be a bunch of unicode characters that are 
missing from \S as a character class and nobody knows exactly which ones.

The problem though is that I don't want to have to program in 'a subset of 
those regular expressions which Safari can be bothered to get right', I'd 
much rather they just fixed the bugs.