From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-09-14T03:49:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Surprising Regexp Behavior

On Sep 13, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Berger, Daniel wrote:

> In the former, sub != gsub.  In the latter, you need multi-line mode
> because of the "\n\n":
>
> # Without /m
> irb(main):026:0> html =~ /<p>(.*?)<\/p>(.*)/
> => 0
> irb(main):027:0> $1
> => "one"
> irb(main):028:0> $2
> => ""
>
> # With /m
> irb(main):023:0> html =~ /<p>(.*?)<\/p>(.*)/m
> => 0
> irb(main):024:0> $1
> => "one"
> irb(main):025:0> $2
> => "\n\n<p>two</p>"

Yep, that's what I was forgetting.  Thanks for the lesson.

James Edward Gray II