symfony/symfony — pull request #4170 by vicb (2012-05-01 10:00:27+00:00)
Title: [Routing] Fix the matching process

This PR is based on the PR #3678, #4139.

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**The spec**

A pattern is composed of both text and variable segments: `/{variable}-test/{other_variable}`.

A variable segment will match anything until a separator is encountered. The separator is the character following the variable segment when available or preceding the variable otherwise (i.e. at the end of the pattern).

That is:

* the separator is `-` for the `variable`,
* the separator is `/` for the `other_variable`.

*Note: This default matching behavior can be overridden if a requirement is specified for a variable)*

**Fixes**

* The current behavior is to consider booth the preceding and following characters as separators (considering availability),
* The "preceding" separator of the first variable is always set to `/` whatever the preceding character is (due to `$pos = 0` for the first iteration).

**Todo**

Update the doc once this is merged