From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-10-04T04:46:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Explain this ruby regex

> FWIW, instead of looking at the result with #inspect, I found it more
> informative to look at the result returned from #scan by itself, e.g.
> 
> irb> "one two".scan(/\w*/)
> => ["one", "", "two", ""]

irb displays the expression value using "inspect", so you are using 
inspect even though you didn't ask for it :-)
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