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I have this text and I want to capture
begin
text
end
begin
text
end
begin
text
end
the text between the begin and end.
/begin.*end/
this will capture the first begin and the last end.
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$ means "Match the end of the string" (the position after the last character in the string). Both are called anchors and ensure that the entire string is matched instead of just a substring.
If you want to indicate a line break when you construct your RegEx, use the sequence “\r\n”. Whether or not you will have line breaks in your expression depends on what you are trying to match. Line breaks can be useful “anchors” that define where some pattern occurs in relation to the beginning or end of a line.
=~ is Ruby's basic pattern-matching operator. When one operand is a regular expression and the other is a string then the regular expression is used as a pattern to match against the string. (This operator is equivalently defined by Regexp and String so the order of String and Regexp do not matter.
Make it lazy - /begin.*?end/
Sidenote: "lazy" is no less acceptable than "non-greedy" is. Example, example, example
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