From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-01-12T03:06:38+09:00
Subject: Re: regex to NOT match?

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:32:54 +0900, David Garamond wrote:

> Ruby Baby wrote:
>> I couldn't find it in any documentation, or Ruby Way or Programming Ruby books.
> 
> Yes, it would be nice if these two excellent Ruby books explain/tutor 
> more about regexp, especially for beginners. As a comparison, regexp 
> receives quite a thorough explanation in many Perl books. Not all Ruby 
> users come from Perl, mind you. :-)

For many examples which exercises many aspects of Ruby's regexp engine, see
http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/projects/regexp_engine/test/match_mixins.rb?rev=1.37&cvsroot=aeditor&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

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Simon Strandgaard