From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-10-25T22:53:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23294] Re: RegExp question

"Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@snelling.com> writes:

> I need to scan text and treat some punctuation (brackets, slashes) as if
> they were word characters, but not others (periods, commas).
> 
> I essentially would like to re-define the set that \w uses then I could
> simply use:
> 
>   /\w+/

Chris:

You could do something like

   /[\w:,.]+/

to match one or more word characters, colons, commas or periods. Is
that the kind of think you wanted?


Dave