From: David Douthitt <DDouthitt@...>
Date: 2001-09-13T03:43:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21174] Ruby 1.4.5 vs. 1.6

Immediately I found one difference between the two; consider this line:

home =~ /\/([^/]+)$/

In 1.4 this works and matches a / followed by a series of characters EXCEPT a / character.

In 1.6, this line errors out with an error about premature end of the pattern, with a pointer to the / in the [] set.  I had to convert from [^/] to [^\/].

We'll see what else comes up.  I thought almost ALL characters inside of [] were supposed to be non-special.