Regex eating my characters

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Hello
I am having trouble with this regex

My pattern is
group 1= any word
Group 2= any word
group 3 = any sentence

irb(main):001:0> pattern= Regexp.new('(\S+)\s+(\S+)(.+)')
=> /(\S+)\s+(\S+)(.+)/
irb(main):002:0> pattern.match("list test")
=> #<MatchData:0x2e8cdc4>
irb(main):003:0> $2
=> "tes"

YOu can see that it just ate the last t from $2. dunnno why.

Regadrs

Seede

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Nah, it's in $3... if it wasn't available for your (.+), there
wouldn't be a match. Did you mean (.*) at the end?

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On Jan 18, 2008 12:59 PM, Junkone <junkone1@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello
I am having trouble with this regex

My pattern is
group 1= any word
Group 2= any word
group 3 = any sentence

irb(main):001:0> pattern= Regexp.new('(\S+)\s+(\S+)(.+)')
=> /(\S+)\s+(\S+)(.+)/
irb(main):002:0> pattern.match("list test")
=> #<MatchData:0x2e8cdc4>
irb(main):003:0> $2
=> "tes"

YOu can see that it just ate the last t from $2. dunnno why.

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thanks

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On Jan 18, 1:04 pm, Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listm...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jan 18, 2008 12:59 PM, Junkone <junko...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
> I am having trouble with this regex

> My pattern is
> group 1= any word
> Group 2= any word
> group 3 = any sentence

> irb(main):001:0> pattern= Regexp.new('(\S+)\s+(\S+)(.+)')
> => /(\S+)\s+(\S+)(.+)/
> irb(main):002:0> pattern.match("list test")
> => #<MatchData:0x2e8cdc4>
> irb(main):003:0> $2
> => "tes"

> YOu can see that it just ate the last t from $2. dunnno why.

Nah, it's in $3... if it wasn't available for your (.+), there
wouldn't be a match. Did you mean (.*) at the end?

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