From: Tom Allison <tallison@...>
Date: 2006-01-17T00:01:48+09:00
Subject: Re: regex

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> 
> /s turns on SJIS encoding, so you probably don't want that.  As for
> all the multiline matching, etc., /m causes the wildcard dot to match
> newline characters, like /s in Perl.  You don't need an equivalent of
> Perl's /m because ^ and $ already always match beginning/end of lines.
> To match beginning/end of string, you use anchors: \A and \z (or \Z to
> discount a final newline).

There's a lot of differences to get used to here.
I'm surprised that Ruby would go contrary to Perl in the regex flags. 
It's bound to be a source of confusion, at least for myself.