what does the .\s* means in the following commad
class String
def sentences
gsub(/\n|\r/, ’ ').split(/.\s*/)
end
end
\s* means occurrence of zero or more white spaces.
gsub(/\n|\r/, ’ ').split(/.\s*/) is basically first removing all the
line feeds and carriage returns and then the sentence is split into an
array whenever a dot followed by zero or more white spaces is
encounterd.
Regards,
Raghav
griffith Khana wrote:
what does the .\s* means in the following commad
it’s actually ‘.\s*’ => match a ‘.’ followed by zero or more spaces
read the regular-expression section for more details:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_stdtypes.html
class String
def sentences
gsub(/\n|\r/, ’ ').split(/.\s*/)
end
end
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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Y.
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