From: Bill Atkins <batkins57@...>
Date: 2004-11-12T11:46:25+09:00
Subject: RegEx bug in 1.8.2?

bill@kaitain ruby $ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [x86_64-linux]

bill@kaitain ruby $ cat regex_x_bug.rb
regex = /(.*)    # X / Y
          [abcde]/x

Running this code snippet yields:

regex_x_bug.rb:1: syntax error

If the / in the comment is changed to a -, the code compiles without
complaint  It looks like Ruby is interpreting the / as the end of the
regex.

Bill