Split Ruby regex over multiple lines

Question

This might not be quite the question you\'re expecting! I don\'t want a regex that will match over line-breaks; instead, I want to write a long regex that, for readability,

Answer 1

Rather than cutting the regex mid-expression, I suggest breaking it into parts:

full_rgx = /This is a message\. A phone number: \d{10}\. A timestamp: \d*?/

msg = /This is a message\./
phone = /A phone number: \d{10}\./
tstamp = /A timestamp: \d*?/

/#{msg} #{phone} #{tstamp}/

I do the same for long strings.