From: Jason Sweat Date: 2004-11-12T11:54:00+09:00 Subject: Re: RegEx bug in 1.8.2? On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:46:25 +0900, Bill Atkins wrote: > 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 I believe you need to excape the / with a \ regex = /(.*) # X \/ Y [abcde]/x Jason -- http://blog.casey-sweat.us/