From: Han Holl <han.holl@...>
Date: 2005-04-06T23:44:52+09:00
Subject: Regular expression mismatch ?

Hello,

Why does the following:

s = "aaa aaa\n\n\nbbb bbb"
puts(s =~ /^\s+$/)

produce: 8  (instead of nil) ?

(If I put in only 2 newlines, it's fine).

This is in several 1.8.2 rpms (caliban, fc3).

Cheers,

Han Holl