Bug #5900: RegExp – Newline and \Z Anchor

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30 revision 33570) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]

[skalee (Sebastian Skalacki)]

/\Aaaa\Z/ =~ "aaa\n"
=> 0 #and should be nil

Same result in MRI 1.9.2.

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

It is expected behavior.

See doc/re.rdoc:

• \Z - Matches end of string. If string ends with a newline,
  it matches just before newline
• \z - Matches end of string