From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T06:27:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does this code not return what I expect it to?

Alle giovedì 3 gennaio 2008, Sam Phoneix ha scritto:
> Heres the code. Why does it miss out the "a" character?
> ------------------------------------------
> "This is a test".scan(/\w\w/) {|x| puts x}
> ------------------------------------------
> Thanks

I guess because the space before the 'a' is not a word character, so ' a' 
can't match /\w\w/.

Stefano