From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2008-11-02T08:54:40+09:00
Subject: Re: problems with regular expressions and parenthesis

Daniel Fac wrote:

> hi,
> i'm having some trouble with regular expressions in ruby.
> If I have a regular expression like this:
> ^([\x20-\x7E]|\w){1,40}$, it will crash ruby if there are more than
> forty characters in it.  I don't understand what is wrong with this
> expression, if my expression is changed to
> ^([\A-Za-z]|\w){1,40}$ it works perfectly well
> so does this one: ^([\x20-\x7E]|\w){1,40}$

What do you mean by "so does this one"?

It's the same as the first one.