From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-07-15T02:51:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Maximum Sub-Array (#131)

On Jul 14, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Anton wrote:

> Hello, everybody! I am new here. I am also relatively new to ruby.
>
> I don't know if it's OK to ask questions here before the 48 hours
> period ends. So I am going to shoot straight and ask.
>
> I am trying to create a perfect regexp match string to match an array
> string like [1, -1, 4, 5]
> So far the best I've came up with is /^\[-*\d+,*.*\]$/
>
> If I add \s+ the string doesn't match. /^\[-*\d+,*\s+.*\]$/ And I have
> no idea why...

Well, if I understand right, you want a regex to match an array of  
one or more integers?  I would probably use:

   /\A\s*\[\s*-?\d+(?:\s*,\s*-?\d+)*\s*\]\s*\Z/

Is that what you are after?

James Edward Gray II