From: Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@...>
Date: 2004-05-14T22:09:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp Error?

On Fri, 14 May 2004 20:18:55 +0900, ts wrote:

>>>>>> "R" == Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> R> irb(main):023:0> "123-456".gsub(/.*/, 'X')
> R> => "XX"
> 
>   * first match : "123-456"
>   * now it's at end
>   * second match with the empty string
> 

I would say the empty string is included with "123-456",
so it shouldn't give another match:

echo "123-456" | sed 's/.*/X/g'
X

Kristof