From: pere.noel@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Une_b=E9vue?=) Date: 2006-03-23T23:38:51+09:00 Subject: Re: perl regexp to ruby one conversion ? James Edward Gray II wrote: > > The expression looks fine to me. Did you try using it? yes, without the correct result, here is my code : field='&���!����tybvn�' utf8rgx=Regexp.new('m/^( [\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E] # ASCII | [\xC2-\xDF][\x80-\xBF] # non-overlong 2-byte | \xE0[\xA0-\xBF][\x80-\xBF] # excluding overlongs | [\xE1-\xEC\xEE\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # straight 3-byte | \xED[\x80-\x9F][\x80-\xBF] # excluding surrogates | \xF0[\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # planes 1-3 | [\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF]{3} # planes 4-15 | \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2} # plane 16 )*$/x') the test : flag=(field === utf8rgx) p "flag = #{flag}" the result being : "flag = false" i'm sure my encoding is utf-8... may be i've a misunderstanding of "===" ? because when trying : truc = 'toto' rgx=Regexp.new('^toto$') flag=(truc === rgx) p "flag = #{flag}" i got : # => "flag = false" ///seems NOT OK to me flag=(truc =~ rgx) p "flag = #{flag}" # => "flag = 0" ///seems OK to me -- une b�vue