From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T08:13:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19258] Re: re

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, markus liedl wrote:

> i'm just not understanding it...
>
> "z u i u" =~ /(z|u|\s)+/
> p $1
>
> =>  " "
>
> are \s more powerful?
> surely, it's not really wrong, but i expected re's to work from left to
> right.

Perhaps you mean...
 "z u i u" =~ /((z|u|\s)+)/
 p $1
"z u "
Otherwise you simply match a single character. (In this case space.)


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