Hi --

On Fri, 9 May 2008, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

>  David A. Black wrote:
> >> irb(main):013:0> /(?=.*h)(?=.*o)/ === "h o"
> >> => true
> > 
> > That depends on the order, though.
> 
>  Yes, it's buggy. Should use //m:
> 
>  irb(main):003:0>  /(?=.*h)(?=.*o)/ === "o \nh"
>  => false
>  irb(main):004:0>  /(?=.*h)(?=.*o)/m === "o \nh"
>  => true
> 
>  Does that fix the order problem you were thinking of?

Actually I think I was wrong about the order mattering (since they're
zero-width). But /m helps anyway.  I still think you could just change
the roles of the two strings and dissect "the string" as a character
class and "the characters" as a string, and use your original
technique.


David

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