Bug: TLA behaviour is odd

The behaviour of the regex for matching TLAs is a bit suspect.

Test case

If I have a TLA at the start of an otherwise innocent word - for example, TLAdahdah, then the TLA gets linked. It shouldn't. This is easy to fix if you just put \b at the end of $abbrevRegex in TWiki.pm.

Environment

-- CrawfordCurrie - 30 Mar 2004

Follow up

The spec can be changed accordingly without introducing too much side-effects.

Notice that the spec for WikiWords is the same, a link stops at the first non-WikiWord character, as in WebHome_withSomeMoreText.

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Apr 2004

Fix record

Converting to PatchProposal so it gets done.

I changed it so plurals of TLAs also work

    $regex{abbrevRegex} = qr/[$regex{upperAlpha}]{3,}s?\b/;

commited to SVN

-- SvenDowideit - 21 Jul 2004