From: Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@...>
Date: 2005-04-07T00:20:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression mismatch ?

Han Holl wrote:
> 
> Why does the following:
> 
> s = "aaa aaa\n\n\nbbb bbb"
> puts(s =~ /^\s+$/)
> 
> produce: 8  (instead of nil) ?

Maybe you would rather use \A and \Z instead of ^ and $:

puts(s =~ /\A\s+\Z/) => nil

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