From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2007-01-26T22:57:53+09:00
Subject: simple question about Ruby Regext

Hi,
I've been learning RUBY the past 7 months or so, and, now, my assistant
is doing the same. In her perusal of the "Programming RUBY" book, first
edition, she's come across a simple, simple regex truism that throws
her, and throws me, too!

Why is this true?

"banana" =~ /an*/
=>1

This is driving me nuts. Why isn't the RUBY response "=>2?" There are
two "an" stubs in "banana."

I thought that RUBY, like PERL, is inherently greedy and it would find
all instances of said regex expression.

Thanks a lot!
Peter

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