[ruby-core:45602] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6488] String#slice example has a syntax error

Issue #6488 has been updated by nathanst (Nathan Stratton Treadway).


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zzak (Zachary Scott) wrote:
 > I was unable to reproduce this with ruby 1.9.3p125 (2012-02-16 revision 34643) [x86_64-linux] and rdoc 3.9.4
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 > Could be an issue with ruby-doc.org?

More specifically, it was a problem in the HTML pages generated by RDoc v3.12 (and ruby-doc.org was indeed using that version).

Over the weekend James Britt regenerated the "core" and "std=lib" RDoc pages (for all Ruby versions) using a copy of rdoc that included this bug's ruby_lex.rb patches, so the regexp literals on those pages should be fixed now.  

(The gem RDocs on the site are built separately and so they may not have been updated yet.)
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Bug #6488: String#slice example has a syntax error
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6488#change-27200

Author: amorsen (Benny Lyne Amorsen)
Status: Closed
Priority: Normal
Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
Category: DOC
Target version: 1.9.3
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30) [x86_64-linux]


http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/String.html#method-i-slice has a syntax error:

a[%r[aeiou](.)\11//]      #=> "ell"
a[%r[aeiou](.)\11//, 0]   #=> "ell"
a[%r[aeiou](.)\11//, 1]   #=> "l"
a[%r[aeiou](.)\11//, 2]   #=> nil

Oh, I have just realized that similar problems exist in the other regexp examples on the page, not just for slice.


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