From: "James B. Byrne" <ByrneJB@...>
Date: 2006-02-10T01:12:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.4 behaviour - 2 questions



Please ignore the "[" typo in the original post. The actual construct 
used is given below:

> Problem 1. 
> 
> whereas f_nam_re = Regexp.new(f_nam_re_s, "m") produces this:
> 
> The passed regexp is:
>         ^QPCCCMR[[:digit:]]$
> The regexp used is:
> /^QPCCCMR[[:digit:]]$/i
> $= is: false
> qpcccmr1 matches
> QPCCCMR1 matches
> QPCCMMR1 does not match
> qpCCCMR1 matches
> QPCCCMRC does not match
> QPCCCMR1.csv does not match
> QPCCCMR9 matches
> XXQPCCCMR9 does not match
> QPCCCMR9yyy does not match
> XyZQPCCCMR3AbC does not match
> 
> I get the same result if I substitute "x" for "m" in the call.  What is 
> going on?
> 
> 


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