From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-01-14T22:47:15+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression

2008/1/14, Johnathan Smith <stu_09@hotmail.com>:
> hey
>
> only a very basic start im afraid
>
> ^([a-zA-Z]{10})$
>
> i.e
> ten letter word (upper or lower case)
> basically i need to get it now so it only deals with words with the
> suffix's a mentioned
>
> any pointers?

You can do either

if /^\w{7}(?:\wed|ing)$/i =~ str
  # process match
end

or

if str.length == 10 && /(?:ed|ing)$/i =~ str
  # process match
end

There are of course more alternatives... :-)

Kind regards

robert

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