From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-09-09T04:22:11+09:00
Subject: RE: Regular expression question

Switched to that...it works great.

Thanks,

rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Holmberg [mailto:holmberg@iar.se] 
> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 3:10 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Regular expression question
> 
> 
> dblack@candle.superlink.net writes:
> > 
> > On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Rich Kilmer wrote:
> > 
> > > Actually I did not need the - so the /\Adec(?[\w])/ worked great.
> > 
> > In that case you don't need the [...], because \w creates 
> an implicit 
> > character class of its own.  (But you *do* need to restore 
> the '!' :-)
> > 
> >   /\Adec(?!\w)/
> > 
> 
> I think you could write this
> 
>     /\Adec\b/
> 
> where \b matches the "word boundary" after "dec".
> 
> 
> /Johan Holmberg
> 
> 
>