Extended maintenance of Ruby 1.9.3 ended on February 23, 2015. Read more A Regexp holds a regular expression, used to match a pattern against strings. Regexps are created using the /.../ and %r{...} literals, and by the Regexp::new constructor. Regular expressions (regexps) are patterns which describe the contents of a string. They're used for testing whether a string contains a given pattern, or
