From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-11-23T02:23:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26161] Re: Non-perlish regular expressions (was: Linux Magazine article)

>>>>> "K" == Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith@yahoo.com> writes:

K> mbox = '/mailbox/testing-for-dashes'

K> dash_split = Regexp.new('.*?-')
K> ext = dash_split.match(mbox)

 if this regexp fail (i.e. you don't have `-'), ruby return nil

K> ext2 = dash_split.match(ext.post_match)

 method #post_match not defined for nil


 
Guy Decoux