From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-09-01T18:27:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a regular pattern

Hi --

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Peter Hickman wrote:

> 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.

Yes, but [.\s] is a character class, consisting of any character other
than \n, plus any space including \n. So it will match any character.


David

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