Hi --

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Sam Dela Cruz wrote:

> I got different results in Perl and Ruby of this regular expression.  Can
> somebody maybe give me a "Ruby Way" solution of this?  The output from
> Perl is what I want.  But I'm currently programming this is Ruby.
>
> def transform_data(data)
>    if (data=~/^[\d\.]+$/) #numbers
>        puts "Got here!"
>    else
>        puts("'" + data + "'")
>    end
> end
>
> data = "patched 3 systems:
> 134.27.56.237
> 134.27.59.6
> 134.27.55.43"
>
> transform_data(data)
> #snippet end ============
>
> Output is:
> Got here!
>
> Now why would it match in Ruby?  Am I missing something here?

^ and $ match start and end of line, not string.  For start and end of
string, you want \A and \z (or \Z to ignore final newline).


David

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