From: stesch@... (Stefan Scholl)
Date: 2001-08-07T15:23:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19274] Re: re

On 2001-08-06 19:08:08Z, markus liedl <markus.lado@gmx.de> wrote:
> i'm just not understanding it...

Me, too.


> "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.

Funny ...

irb(main):001:0> "z u i u" =~ /(z|u|\s)+/
0

First match on position 0. But $1 is " " instead of "z".

ruby 1.6.4 (2001-06-04) [i586-linux]