From: Jos Backus <josb@...>
Date: 2001-11-22T10:02:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26102] Re: Linux Magazine article

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:53:30PM +0900, HarryO wrote:
>    s = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
> 
>    p s[/f.*r/]

But what if you need to anchor the string?
Sadly, this doesn't work as I'd expect:

    mbox = 'apache-dev-list'
    ext = mbox[/-(.*)/]
    ext2 = ext[/-(.*)/]
    puts "#{mbox},#{ext},#{ext2}"

Fwiw, I was expecting to see

    apache-dev-list,dev-list,list

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