From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2006-09-18T08:51:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression for string.anotherstring


Bart Braem wrote:
> One question though: why does \w match with '@'? According to the
> documentation \w == [a..zA..Z]??\w doesn't match @, it's just that your expression was too general:

test = lambda { |x| p $1 if x =~ /(\w+\.\w+)/ }
test.call('down@fraggle.roc') # => "fraggle.roc"
test.call('foo.bar@baz') # => "foo.bar"

I.e., you were matching on either side of the @

Regards,
Jordan