From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-02-26T06:39:55+09:00
Subject: Re: regex and lookahead to specific number of chars

On 25.02.2008 21:28, Adam Akhtar wrote:
> If I have a string such as
> "I love ruby, i really do love ruby, oh yes i do blah blah blah"
> 
> and i want to insert an asterix at every 10th char whether its a
> whitespace, digit whatever how do i go about it
> 
> i was trying
> 
> string.gsub!(/[.]{10}/, "*")
> 
> but it doesnt work
> 
> any hints???

Remove the square brackets around the dot.  The dot is meta only outside 
of them.

Cheers

	robert