From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-01-22T05:47:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expressions

Hi --

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> I'm having trouble with a simple match:
>
> >> line
> => "<img src='a.jpg' />"
> >> line =~  /(<img \.*>)/
> => nil
>
> Shouldn't "." match anything other than "\n"?
> Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?

You've escaped your . so it's a literal . , which then
isn't found.  You have to remove the '\'.


David

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