From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2008-10-04T00:44:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Explain this ruby regex

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008, renton.dan@gmail.com wrote:
> "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.

Try replacing #length with #inspect and seeing what the output of scan
is.  You'll find that it's returning two empty strings as well.  I
suspect what you really want is \w+...

Ben