From: Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listmail@...>
Date: 2008-01-19T03:04:53+09:00
Subject: Re: regex eating my characters

On Jan 18, 2008 12:59 PM, Junkone <junkone1@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Nah, it's in $3... if it wasn't available for your (.+), there
wouldn't be a match. Did you mean (.*) at the end?

-A