From: Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@...>
Date: 2009-12-15T18:33:18+09:00
Subject: Re: what does \s* means?

griffith Khana wrote:
> 
> 
> what does the .\s* means in the following commad

it's actually '\.\s*' => match a '.' followed by zero or more spaces

read the regular-expression section for more details:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_stdtypes.html


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


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