From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-02-07T05:07:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10453] Re: Recall Regexp options?

"Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly@hotmail.com> writes:

> matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote:
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >In message "[ruby-talk:10435] Re: Recall Regexp options?"
> >     on 01/02/07, "Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly@hotmail.com> writes:
> >
> >|>I'll fix it soon.
> >|
> >|Thank you, and if you make the options available as an
> >|attribute of Ruby, I will be most grateful.
> >
> >I will do this too.  Do you think Regexp#options is a good name for
> >the method?
> >
> Yup.  Then you can duplicate an RE exactly with:
> 
>   new_re = Regexp.new(re.source, re.options, re.kcode.to_s)

Although it would also be nice to have

    new_re = Regexp.new(re)

(as well as the more prosaic new_re = re.dup)



Dave