From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-05-14T22:23:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp Error?

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Kristof Bastiaensen wrote:

> 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

yes but

~ > echo "123-456" | perl -npe 's/.*$/X/g'
XX

and sed regexps are not the same as perl/ruby right?

-a
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