Why does this ruby-regular expression not match this string?

Question

x = "output/file.zip"

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

returns nil. There is something wrong with avoiding the period, but I cannot understand.

Answer 1

.usually means "any character" in a regular expression. Try this .*, which means " .repeats zero or more times":

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

Works great for me.