From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2007-10-27T08:23:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Newlines included in bracket negation

Jes炭s Gabriel y Gal叩n wrote:
> On 10/27/07, Phrogz <phrogz@mac.com> wrote:
>> > => ["h", "", "day"]
>> h.+day/, which does not match.
> I need more sleep, for sure. I was of course thinking on the first "h"
> and the last "day". That explains it :-)
> 

A clue was in the capture results:

rb(main):036:0> re = /(h)(.*)(day)/
=> /(h)(.*)(day)/
irb(main):037:0> "happy\n\nbirthday".match(re).captures
=> ["h", "", "day"]

The fact that the (.*) matched nothing was an indication that something 
was amiss.

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