From: Zoltan Dezso <maildeliverysubs@...>
Date: 2008-04-03T10:12:58+09:00
Subject: Re: confused by 'test'.gsub(/.*/,'x')

Perl, PHP:

perl -le '$str="test"; $str =~ s/.*?/x/g; print $str;'
xxxxxxxxx

preg_replace('/.*?/', 'x', 'test');
xxxxxxxxx

Ruby:
print 'test'.gsub(/.*?/, 'x')
xtxexsxtx

Zaki
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