From: Rick Bradley <rick@...>
Date: 2002-06-08T13:03:56+09:00
Subject: Re: words[0] ! =~ /#*/ doesn't match "#aaaaaaaaa"

* Peter Booth (pbooth@nocoincidences.com) [020607 23:00]:
> I am attempting to parse the following file and ignore lines that
> begin with a # but my regexp doesn't seem to match correctly. Can
> anyone tell me the "right" way to match a string that begins with a #
> character?
 
/#*/            will match any string (the '*' makes '#' optional)
/#/ (or /#+/)   will match strings containing a '#'
/^#/ (or /^#+/) will match strings starting with a '#'

Rick
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