From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-06-21T07:31:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Do You Understand Regular Expressions?

growlatoe@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> irb(main):001:0> "hello".scan(/.*/)
> => ["hello", ""]
>
> I was expecting one match, not two, because .* matches everything,
> right? Can someone explain why an empty string is also matched?
>   
Try anchoring the match: /^.*/

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