From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-09-02T03:01:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a regular pattern

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, David A. Black wrote:

> 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.

In case you didn't see James Gray's correction, let me inform you what
I've written here is rubbish. The dot in a character class is just a
dot, not a wildcard.


David

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