From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2005-01-22T06:41:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the version number of the ruby interpreter

That's no longer supported as of 1.8, but unfortunately gives no
error, according to page 64 of PickAxe2.

while line = gets
    puts line if line =~ /start/ .. line =~ /end/
end
 
is the correct form now. 

Note: gets and print still operate magically on $_ in 1.8.2 but I'm
guessing  /  / doesn't, and hence that example no longer working.

More in line with the original example, I'd guess that this also works:

while gets
    print if $_ =~ /start/ .. $_ =~ /end/
end
# $_ implicit for gets and print

Regards,
Nick
-- 
Nicholas Van Weerdenburg

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 06:10:58 +0900, William James <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Trevor Wennblom wrote:
> >
> > http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html
> 
> 
> That site has this:
> 
> # prints lines starting at 'start' and ending at 'end'
> while gets
>   print if /start/../end/
> end
> 
> Is that correct?
> 
>