From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2010-01-14T21:37:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug with end of string characters in regex?

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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

Good to know thanks. I copied the quote from:

http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html#11

Thanks.

Jesus.