From: Bart Braem <bart.braem@...>
Date: 2006-09-18T02:46:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression for string.anotherstring

Paul Lutus wrote:

> I think you want this: "string.string", but you don't want this:
> "string.string@domain". Yes?
> 
That's right.


> Have you tried:
> 
> string =~ /^\w+\.\w+$/
> 
> "^" means match at the beginning of the string, "$" means match at the
> end. IOW the example must match the entire string. Is this what you
> wanted?

That's a good suggestion, I'll give it a shot.
One question though: why does \w match with '@'? According to the
documentation \w == [a..zA..Z]??

Bart