From: "Brian Schröder" Date: 2004-11-19T06:09:59+09:00 Subject: Re: About Regular Expressions On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:43:33 +0900 Francis Hwang wrote: > > On Nov 18, 2004, at 9:26 AM, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > [post] > As the person who posted that question, let me just say that while > there are lots of Ruby details I forget, you couldn't reasonably call > me a newbie. One reason, I think, is that the char class I was dealing > with had other characters that distracted me: > > /^[0123456789.-*]+/ > > ... which isn't certainly a sign of programming genius, but I like to > think is the sort of odd blind spot that happens to most programmers > from time to time. I'd also like to think that most of what I post here > isn't nearly that newbie-ish, but then I'm obviously not the best judge > of that. > > F. > I hope that this does not shun anyone away from posting. It must be allowed to post a "dumb" questions from time to time as Nikolai himself said, he who is not interested in answering "dumb" questions just skips them. Doing a bit of research on your own is the politeness I expect everyone to have done. As I said before, I think that every mere mortal has some blind spots sometimes. And Francis question was also answered as expected with a correction and a pointer for further reading. I'm shure every poster that gets this kind of treatment will learn something new. Maybe we should strip the harsh tone from Nikolais post and consider if it is a sensible idea to put up more documentation, or a link to some good existing documentation on ruby-doc or "ri Regexp" Regards, Brian -- Brian Schr�der http://www.brian-schroeder.de/