From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-01-15T07:21:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie regex question about \w

On Jan 14, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Jeff Cohen wrote:

> I'm trying to parse ruby files to find all the class definitions in  
> the
> file. For each line in the file, I thought I could use the  
> following to
> pull out the class name:
>
> \bclass\b(\w+)\b
>
> so then $1 would give me the class name.

You're close, you just forgot to allow for some space between class  
and the name.  A boundary is a zero-width assertion, so it's not enough:

\bclass\s+(\w+)\b

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II