From: Bart Braem Date: 2006-09-18T18:21:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Regular expression for string.anotherstring MonkeeSage wrote: > I.e., you were matching on either side of the @ > Oh boy, you are right! Thanks for the explanation. I will try it with: string =~ /^\w+\.\w+\z/ But is there a ruby operator to look for matches on the entire string? Thanks for your help Bart