From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-06-28T00:28:16+09:00
Subject: Re: \s in regex

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, s moon wrote:

/usr/home/howardat/eg/ruby > cat blank.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

re = %r/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/o

DATA.each do |line|
  p re.match(line).to_a
end

__END__
     zero  zero
    one  one one

   three

  five


/usr/home/howardat/eg/ruby > ruby blank.rb
["     zero  zero\t       ", "zero  zero"]
["    one\t one one ", "one\t one one"]
["", ""]
["   three  ", "three"]
["", ""]
["  five\t", "five"]

-a
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