From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-03-23T12:13:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Regexp (a question)

Hi,

At Sat, 23 Mar 2002 06:48:32 +0900,
Sean Russell wrote:
> Does anybody know how to specify UTF-8 characters in regular
> expressions?  The ruby \xNN only takes two digits, so multi-byte
> characters can't be encoded, AFAIK; is there a way of specifying
> these?

I guess you may need UTF-8 string not but RE.

  puts /\A([^<]*)/u.match("K\xc3\xb6ln</test>")[0]

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Nobu Nakada