From: "mame (Yusuke Endoh)" <mame@...>
Date: 2012-11-05T20:38:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:48897] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7042][Rejected] String#=~ is not equal to Regexp#=~


Issue #7042 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh).

Status changed from Open to Rejected

Because this is a kind of assignment, the value is in the right side and the variable is in the left side... we thought.

This is actually intentional.  Closing.
You can open a feature request to add a pattern to regexp assignment, if you wish.

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Bug #7042: String#=~ is not equal to Regexp#=~
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7042#change-32392

Author: Hanmac (Hans Mackowiak)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]


i found out that string =~ regexp is not equal to regexp =~ string
when you use named captures:

"6:15 PM" =~ /(?<hour>\d+):(?<minute>\d+) (?<pm>A|P)M/; p hour,minute,pm # works not
/(?<hour>\d+):(?<minute>\d+) (?<pm>A|P)M/ =~ "6:15 AM"; p hour,minute,pm # works

i wonder why is that so ?


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