A regular expression that will never match

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So you have a method returning a regular expression but one case that should not yield a matching Regexp object but still keep the API stable? Just return one that never matches:

/(?!)/
Arne Hartherz
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ruby, perl
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Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2013-02-20 18:15)