On Wednesday, Oct 8, 2003, at 07:49 US/Central, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> assert_match(/b \nc/x, "abcd")
>
> fails ?
>
> programming-ruby says that newlines will be ignored?
>

Physical newlines. The \n is part of the pattern

    assert_match(/b
                          c/x, "abcd")