From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T08:16:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19260] Re: re

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, John Carter wrote:

> 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.)

Sorry, I stated that badly. Your regex matches exactly the same as mine,
the difference is $1 corresponds to a single character (space) in your
regex, in mine it corresponds to the whole match.

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