regexp behaviour: "^[^ ]+ "

Saturday, 10 December 2005

        Hi,

I'd like to remove the first word in a string, by deleting up to the first
space character, and did this:

 (replace-in-string "one two three four five" "^[^ ]+" "")

  => " two three four five"

I'd like to remove the initial space too, and changed it to:

 (replace-in-string "one two three four five" "^[^ ]+ " "")

  => "five"

I expected to get "two three four five".  Is this a bug, or should I adjust
my expectations ?

I'm running 21.4.17 on windows.

-- René