From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2003-08-26T02:38:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Specification of Ruby regex?

Pickaxe is your best friend (ideally, the hardcopy). Some information may be
found here:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_stdtypes.html

Scroll down to "Regular Expressions" sections.

Gennady.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald Pijnacker" <rhp@dse.nl>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Cc: "Ronald Pijnacker" <rhp@dse.nl>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 7:03 AM
Subject: Specification of Ruby regex?


> Hi all,
>
> I was just wondering... Is there any place where Ruby's Regex
> capabilities are described?
>
> E.g. it seems that /\w{3}/ matches at least three consecutive characters,
> but I do not seem to be able to locate any exact documentation on this.
>
> Any idea's?
>
>     Ronald.
>
>