From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2005-12-17T07:04:47+09:00
Subject: Re: challenge - regex which matches nothing

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Dec 16, 2005, at 3:47 PM, mathew wrote:
>
>> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>>> comments?
>> 
>> I think you mean 'a regex which doesn't match anything'; surely
>> /^$/ is a regex which matches nothing?
>
> No, he meant a regex that always fails.

lol!

ok.  before this gets out of hand, what i meant was

   regex =~ any_possible_string #=> false

kind regards.

-a
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