From: Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
Date: 2005-11-27T10:00:14+09:00
Subject: Re: String#to_rx ?

Although I am surprised there isn't a String#escape ( or maybe #escaped ) method

/#{ b.escaped }/

... or something like that. would be literal, and make sense ...

j.

On 11/26/05, Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't want them to be ... I wanted the body of the string to be
> passed in literally ...
>
> Yes, I understand if I wanted otherwise I would have to do just a
> touch more work...
>
> c = /#{ Regexp.escape( b ) }/
>
> but, it's all literal, and doesn't surprise me... as it shouldn't anyone else.
>
> /#{ b }/ where b = "w.*" should be /w.*/
>
> ... guess I'm not understanding the original point ... somebody
> wanting an additional wrapper for strings that auto escapes them ?
>
> why not write one %e( ) or something like that.
>
> ...
>
> j.
>
>
> On 11/26/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jeff,
> >
> >   a = "hello world"
> >   b = "w.*"
> >   c = /#{ b }/
> >   c.match( a ).to_a
> >   #=> ["world"]
> >
> > Characters arn't escaped.
> >
> > T.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> "Remember. Understand. Believe. Yield! -> http://ruby-lang.org"
>
> Jeff Wood
>
>


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