From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2006-09-18T19:28:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression for string.anotherstring

Paul Lutus schrieb:
> Bart Braem wrote:
>> 
>> 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.

This would be unnecessarily complex. Just use Bart's regexp (with \z 
instead of $). It matches the entire string.

Regards,
Pit