From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-05-14T07:55:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp: why does (re)* return only last repetition?

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 06:34:09PM +0900, ts wrote:
> >>>>> "B" == Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> B> But z = /ab\d/ works. Somebody care to explain that one? :-)
> 
>  \d           digit
>  \c or \C-    control character
> 
>   /\cM/   control-M
> 
> pigeon% ruby -e 'p (/\cM/ =~ 13.chr); p (/\C-M/ =~ 13.chr)'
> 0
> 0
> pigeon% 

Ugh. But thank you for explaining!

Brian.