From: renton.dan@...
Date: 2008-10-04T00:38:40+09:00
Subject: Explain this ruby regex

Can someone explain this regex ...

"one two".scan(/\w*/).length

returns 4. I can see it matching the 2 words and the space, what else
is it matching on? Is there a null terminator, I thought Ruby strings
were not null termed.