From: Junkone <junkone1@...>
Date: 2008-01-19T02:59:59+09:00
Subject: regex eating my characters

Hello
I am having trouble with this regex

My pattern is
group 1= any word
Group 2= any word
group 3 = any sentence

irb(main):001:0> pattern= Regexp.new('(\S+)\s+(\S+)(.+)')
=> /(\S+)\s+(\S+)(.+)/
irb(main):002:0> pattern.match("list test")
=> #<MatchData:0x2e8cdc4>
irb(main):003:0> $2
=> "tes"


YOu can see that it just ate the last t from $2. dunnno why.

Regadrs

Seede