From: Glenn Jackman <glennj@...>
Date: 2010-01-12T00:35:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex help

At 2010-01-11 07:57AM, "Robert Klemme" wrote:
>  2010/1/11 Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@alice.it>:
> > =A0/^[a-f\d]{4},[a-f\d]{4}$/
> >
> > Note that your string can contain newlines, you must replace ^ and $ with=
>   \A
> > and \Z respectively.
>  
>  I believe this should rather be \z because \Z allows for a follwing
>  newline.  So that would be
>  
>  /\A[a-f\d]{4},[a-f\d]{4}\z/

ON the other hand, \Z saves you a .chomp
  
>  see http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/doc/RE.txt

I'd love to see that kind of documentation in the core Ruby docs.

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