From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-09-18T18:48:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression for string.anotherstring

Bart Braem wrote:

> 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?

string =~ /^\w+\.\w+$/

Must match the entire string. Because of multiline issues, where that is a
factor, you can always split on newlines in advance of this test to be sure
you are matching the entire string unambiguously.

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Paul Lutus
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