From: gsterndale <gsterndale@...>
Date: 2008-07-23T14:34:23+09:00
Subject: largest Regex match possible

In the example below I'd like to match 'what is' and 'foo bar'. Any
ideas?

'what is foo bar' =~ /(.*)\s*(foo bar|bar)/ => 0
$1 => "what is foo "
$2 => "bar"

Thanks!