From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2008-09-01T18:16:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a regular pattern

Zhao Yi wrote:
> Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:
>   
>> Zhao Yi wrote:
>>     
>>> I think this is better [.\s]
>>>       
>> No, it's not.
>>     
>
> Why? It should match any character.
>   
 From the docs, http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/UsersGuide/rg/regexp.html

|\s| space character; same as |[ \t\n\r\f]

That is not any character it is only whitespace.
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