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fix for StringScanner bug #4

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luikore opened this issue Mar 7, 2011 · 1 comment

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luikore commented Mar 7, 2011

require 'strscan'
ss = StringScanner.new "\n"
/./ =~ "\n" #=> 0
# but strscan's behavior is strange:
ss.scan /./ #=> nil

ss = StringScanner.new "a\n"
ss.scan /[.\n]/ #=> nil -- this group is interpreted as /\n/

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kzhamaji commented Aug 10, 2012

According to Ruby's manual, /./ doesn't match '\n' without using multi-line mode.

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