From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2005-12-16T05:37:29+09:00
Subject: Re: challenge - regex which matches nothing

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Mike Fletcher wrote:

> unknown wrote:
>> this is the best i've come up with
>>
>>    %r/^(?!.*)$/m
>
> %r/\z\A/ ?

close

   irb(main):020:0> "" =~ %r/\z\A/
   => 0


-a
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