[UIMA-5416] Ruta: strange behavior of # matching

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.6.0ruta
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.1ruta
• Component/s: Ruta

Environment

MacOS X and Linux

Docs Text

1 A ...... 1
2 B ...... 2

• Assignee: Peter Klügl
• Reporter: Hugues de Mazancourt
• Created: 30/Apr/17 19:41
• Updated: 10/Jul/17 09:42
• Resolved: 10/Jul/17 09:42

Description

The attached ruleset Loop.ruta has a strange behavior on the attached text file : the last rule matches 1009 times and creates 1008 annotations where only two are expected. What is very strange is the ability for # to "cross" over the right boundary and match the two lines.
This is (at least) counterintuitive as # is supposed to behave like a non-greedy catch-all.