From: "Sandor Szücs" <sandor.szuecs@...>
Date: 2008-07-14T21:14:15+09:00
Subject: Re: the Regular exp read from file not matching !!


On 14.07.2008, at 09:38, Jayan Jacob wrote:

> When I use /^[0-1]{1}$/ with "1" as subject it works but
> /^[0-1]{1}[a-zA-Z]{1,25}$/ syntax for "1,abcd" , I have checked out on
> the interpreter directly both works fine.  I suppose I am messing up
> something with the files, or gets or chomp or ..
>
> Any help ?


That RegEx: /^[0-1]{1}[a-zA-Z]{1,25}$/ doesn't match ','.

maybe: add ','
irb> regex2=/^[0-1]{1},[a-zA-Z]{1,25}$/
=> /^[0-1]{1},[a-zA-Z]{1,25}$/
irb> regex2.match "1,abcd"
=> #<MatchData "1,abcd">

or '.?'
irb> regex3=/^[0-1]{1}.?[a-zA-Z]{1,25}$/
=> /^[0-1]{1}.?[a-zA-Z]{1,25}$/
irb> regex3.match "1,abcd"
=> #<MatchData "1,abcd">

hth. regards, Sandor Szücs
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