From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2011-03-05T13:22:27+09:00
Subject: Re: printing regex results

Karuppasamy M. wrote in post #985556:
> try this,
>
> irb(main):001:0> str = "aaaDDDbDDDcDDDgHHyHjHJkkjUUh"
> => "aaaDDDbDDDcDDDgHHyHjHJkkjUUh"
> irb(main):002:0> arr = str.scan(/([A-Z]{3}[a-z]{1}[A-Z]{3})/)
> => [["DDDbDDD"]]
> irb(main):009:0> puts arr[0]
> DDDbDDD
> => nil
>
> Thanks & Best Regards,
> M. Karuppasamy


Your regex drastically changes the meaning of the original regex.  Your 
regex will match "ABCaXYZ"; the original regex won't.

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