From: Beratung@...
Date: 2006-05-23T18:57:47+09:00
Subject: Script running in Ruby version 1.6.7 but not in 1.8.4

Hi,

I have written a script in Ruby version 1.6.7 running in Windows and it is 
doing fine. But when I start it in Linux with Ruby version 1.8.4 there are 
lot of error messages.

I minimized the script to that part, which will cause the errors.

Here it is:

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#====================================================================== 
# class Block
#
# Block
# ===================================================================== 
class Block
  
  UMLAUTE = ""<<0x84<<0x81<<0x94<<0x80<<0x99<<0x9A<<0xE1
  REG_VAR_NAME = "[a-z]+[a-z0-9_#$"+"()" + "@." + UMLAUTE + "]*"
  REG_PLAIN_NAME = "[a-z]+[a-z0-9_" + "." + UMLAUTE + "]*"
  REG_PARAM_LIST = "[a-z]+[a-z0-9_#$," + UMLAUTE + "]*"
  REG_STRUCT_NAME = "[a-z]+[a-z0-9_" + UMLAUTE + "]*"
    
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Block#adapt_param_list_with_types
  #
  # Change paramlist for use in c++ prototypes
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------
  def adapt_param_list_with_types(var_list)
    out_list = String.new("")
    vars = var_list.split(',')
    
    vars.each do |var|
      if var =~ /REF/
        ref  = "&"
      else
        ref = ""
      end
      case var
        when Regexp.new("REF\s(#{REG_PLAIN_NAME)
[@]\sOF\s(#{REG_PLAIN_NAME})$")
          out_list += "#{$2} *#{$1},"  
        when Regexp.new("(#{REG_PLAIN_NAME})#$")
          out_list += "int " + ref + $1 + "_int,"
        when Regexp.new("(#{REG_PLAIN_NAME})[$]$")
          out_list += "str " + ref + $1 + "_str,"
        when Regexp.new("(#{REG_PLAIN_NAME})$")
          out_list += "double " + ref + $1 + ","
        else 
          out_list += var + ","
      end
    end
    out_list.chop!
    #puts "var_list = " + var_list
    #puts "out_list = " + out_list
    return adapt_umlaut_in_var_names(out_list)
  end
  
end

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Here are the error messages:

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ruby test.rb

test.rb:9: parse error, unexpected '(', expecting kEND
  REG_VAR_NAME = "[a-z]+[a-z0-9_#$"+"()" + "@." + UMLAUTE + "]*"
                                      ^
test.rb:9: parse error, unexpected $undefined., expecting kEND
  REG_VAR_NAME = "[a-z]+[a-z0-9_#$"+"()" + "@." + UMLAUTE + "]*"
                                             ^
test.rb:9: parse error, unexpected ']', expecting kEND
  REG_VAR_NAME = "[a-z]+[a-z0-9_#$"+"()" + "@." + UMLAUTE + "]*"
                                                              ^
test.rb:10: trailing `_' in number
  REG_PLAIN_NAME = "[a-z]+[a-z0-9_" + "." + UMLAUTE + "]*"
                                  ^
test.rb:10: parse error, unexpected tSTRING_BEG, expecting ']'
  REG_PLAIN_NAME = "[a-z]+[a-z0-9_" + "." + UMLAUTE + "]*"
                                   ^
test.rb:10: parse error, unexpected tSTRING_BEG
  REG_PLAIN_NAME = "[a-z]+[a-z0-9_" + "." + UMLAUTE + "]*"
                                         ^
test.rb:10: parse error, unexpected ']', expecting kEND
  REG_PLAIN_NAME = "[a-z]+[a-z0-9_" + "." + UMLAUTE + "]*"
                                                        ^
test.rb:11: trailing `_' in number
  REG_PARAM_LIST = "[a-z]+[a-z0-9_#$," + UMLAUTE + "]*"
                                  ^
test.rb:12: parse error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting ']'
  REG_STRUCT_NAME = "[a-z]+[a-z0-9_" + UMLAUTE + "]*"
                 ^
test.rb:33: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting ')'
          out_list += "int " + ref + $1 + "_int,"
                          ^
test.rb:33: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting kEND
          out_list += "int " + ref + $1 + "_int,"
                                               ^
test.rb:34: parse error, unexpected '(', expecting tCOLON2 or '[' or '.'
        when Regexp.new("(#{REG_PLAIN_NAME})[$]$")
                          ^
test.rb:36: parse error, unexpected kWHEN, expecting kEND
        when Regexp.new("(#{REG_PLAIN_NAME})$")
            ^
test.rb:38: parse error, unexpected kELSE, expecting kEND
        else
            ^
test.rb:48: parse error, unexpected kEND, expecting $

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Does anybody have an idea, why these erorr messages occur?

Siegward