From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T06:30:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does this code not return what I expect it to?


On 3-Jan-08, at 4:23 PM, Sam Phoneix wrote:

> Heres the code. Why does it miss out the "a" character?
> ------------------------------------------
> "This is a test".scan(/\w\w/) {|x| puts x}
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> Thanks
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Have you researched what the \w matches in a regular expression, and  
considered how many of them there are in the argument to scan?

Mike

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