From: Samuel Tesla <samuel@...>
Date: 2003-07-07T11:14:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Need regex to match "^\n"

Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:

> On Monday,  7 July 2003 at 10:05:22 +0900, Aredridel wrote:
> > 
> > line =~ /^[^]$/
>  
> 
>  % cat caret 
>  puts (/^[^]/ =~ "^\n")

try this:

puts ("^\n" =~ /^[^]/)

>  % ruby caret 
>  caret:1: invalid regular expression; empty character class: /^[^]/

Just remember, string goes on the left, regex goes on the right.

--
Samuel