From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-06-14T20:27:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16468] Re: Ruby regexp bug ?

>>>>> "A" == Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov <xm@w3d.ru> writes:

A> Also, if this is normal, I want to propose a change, perhaps by additional
A> option in regexps, or
A> (preferably for existing code), a global variable $something (yikes! - I
A> hate globals ;) which controls this,
A> or at least want to know why this way was preferred over perl one.

pigeon% ruby -e 'print "123\n456" =~ /\A456/, "\n"'
nil
pigeon% 

pigeon% ruby -e 'print "123\n456" =~ /\A123/, "\n"'
0
pigeon% 


Guy Decoux