From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2013-02-05T01:39:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Character classes use in Ruby

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Love U Ruby <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> tamouse mailing lists wrote in post #1095109:
>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Love U Ruby <lists@ruby-forum.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> /[[:digit:]]/ - Digit
>>>
>>> I know their description - but would be good for me if I get a ruby tiny
>>> code to see their uses. Mainly how syntactically are they
>>> used,basically.
>>
>> Read the page Hans pointed you to:
>>
>> /[[:upper:]][[:lower:]]/.match("Hello") #=> #<MatchData "He">
>
>
> Okay! Could you explain how the matching here performed, to produce
> "#<MatchData "He">"

There are tutorials on regular expressions out there on the web.
Nobody is going to go through the effort to write another one just for
you.

If you want a book, read "Mastering Regular Expressions".

Cheers

robert


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