From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-05-14T20:14:02+09:00
Subject: Regexp Error?

What's wrong here?

irb(main):022:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.8.1"
irb(main):023:0> "123-456".gsub(/.*/, 'X')
=> "XX"
irb(main):024:0> "123-456".gsub(/^.*/, 'X')
=> "X"
irb(main):025:0> "123-456".gsub(/.*$/, 'X')
=> "XX"
irb(main):026:0> "123-456".gsub(/^.*$/, 'X')
=> "X"

I'd have expected "X" as result of gsub in 23 and 25 because .* is greedy.

    robert