From: mgarriss <mgarriss@...>
Date: 2003-08-27T06:15:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Specification of Ruby regex?

Brian Candler wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 05:37:12PM +0900, Mark Wilson wrote:
>  
>
>>>I was just wondering... Is there any place where Ruby's Regex
>>>capabilities are described?
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>      
>>>
>>Ruby's regular expressions are almost identical to Perl's.
>>    
>>
>
>Except where they are different. The biggest glaring difference is that
>^ and $ do not mean "match start of string" and "match end of string"
>
>   a.untaint if /^[a-z]+$/ =~ a        # WRONG and maybe dangerous
>   a.untaint if /\A[a-z]+\z/ =~ a      # right
>
>Regards,
>
>Brian.
>
what do ^ and $ mean then?  they do match start and end for me.  what 
else do they match? *shudders at thought of changing lots of code

Michael