From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-01-14T20:50:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug with end of string characters in regex?

2010/1/13 Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Justin Coyne <digger250@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Looks like I've solved my own problem the \Z in ruby doesn't have the
>> same semantics as it does in other languages.  There is a \z which is
>> what I wanted so as expected:
>>
>> /\A\n\z/m.match("\n\n") => nil
>
> \z            end of a string
> \Z            end of a string, or before newline at the end
>
> So, \Z allows an extra \n at the end of the string.

For the reference here's the doc:
http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/doc/RE.txt

Cheers

robert

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