From: Lou Zell <lzell11@...>
Date: 2008-01-24T11:43:41+09:00
Subject: weird gsub behavior

Hi,

I came across a problem in a gsub and boiled it down to this difference,
can anyone explain?

>> b="trying to match whole string"
=> "trying to match whole string"

>> b.gsub(/(.+)/,'MATCH:\1')
=> "MATCH:trying to match whole string"

That operated the way I expected, but:

>> b.gsub(/(.*)/,'MATCH:\1')
=> "MATCH:trying to match whole stringMATCH:"


What is with that second match?

Thanks,
Lou
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