From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-04-18T02:45:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner gsub and ri questions

On 4/17/06, Jamal Mazrui <Jamal.Mazrui@fcc.gov> wrote:> Thanks for the response.  Is there a way to do this without a regular> expression?  To further explain, I want the program to be able to do any> kind of literal string replacement at runtime, except that case is> ignored.  If I use a regular expression as the match string, then> certain characters could be interpreted in special, non-literal ways,> which is not what I want in this case.
What you want here is to construct your regular expression properly, such as:
  catmatch = %r{#{Regexp::escape(cat)}}i  stringval =~ catmatch
The Regexp::escape (ri it) will prevent your fears from coming true, here.
-austin--Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca