Why won't this ruby regex match this string? - 


x = "output/file.zip"  x =~ /output\/.\../

returns nil. there wrong escaping period, can't figure out.

. means "any character" in regex. try .*, means ". repeated 0 or more times":

x =~ /output\/.*\..*/

works fine me.


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