From: Kilian Verhetsel Date: 2009-08-27T19:06:59+09:00 Subject: Re: regexp which matches nothing? Why do you want to have a such regex ? Anyway, it seems that /^$a/ will never match with any string. "a".match /^$a/ => nil "".match /^$a/ => nil "a ".match /^$a/ => nil -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.