From: Jens Wille <jens.wille@...>
Date: 2008-04-03T08:03:55+09:00
Subject: Re: confused by 'test'.gsub(/.*/,'x')

Januski, Ken [2008-04-03 00:08]:
> Of course my background is Perl and I believe that's how it would
> work there.
no, works the same way there:

  sh> perl -e '$s = "test"; $s =~ s/.*/x/g; print "$s\n"'
  xx

(only a lot more complicated ;-)

btw: python, php and javascript, too.

oh, and here's what oniguruma does:

  irb> Oniguruma::ORegexp.new('.*').gsub('test', 'x')
  =>"xx"

cheers
jens