From: Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listmail@...>
Date: 2006-09-18T23:26:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression for string.anotherstring

On 9/17/06, Bart Braem <bart.braem@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Bart-

Maybe I'm off base here, but are you trying to determine if a string
matches a pattern, or are you trying to capture a matching substring
from a string?

-Alex