From: "Dasson, Raghav" <raghav.dasson@...>
Date: 2009-12-15T18:26:43+09:00
Subject: Re: what does \s* means?

\s* means occurrence of zero or more white spaces.

 gsub(/\n|\r/, ' ').split(/\.\s*/) is basically first removing all the line feeds and carriage returns and then the sentence is split into an array whenever a dot followed by zero or more white spaces is encounterd.

Regards,
Raghav 

-----Original Message-----
From: khanal02@gmail.com [mailto:khanal02@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:27 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: what does \s* means?




what does the .\s* means in the following commad






class String
  def sentences
    gsub(/\n|\r/, ' ').split(/\.\s*/)
  end
end
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