From: Jason Sweat <jason.sweat@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T06:06:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex for whitespace plus vertical bar

On 7/28/06, Robert La ferla <robertlaferla@comcast.net> wrote:
> I am trying to quote arguments that have whitespace or a pipe (vertical
> bar character = | ) in them.  Why doesn't this work?  What does work?
>
>
>
> if arg.index(/[\s|]/)
> ...
>
> end

Seems to work for me:

$ irb
>> re=/[\s|]/
=> /[\s|]/
>> re.match('kldfslkd')
=> nil
>> re.match('df  |sdf')
=> #<MatchData:0x4098995c>


Regards,
Jason
http://blog.casey-sweat.us/