From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2006-10-03T16:27:49+09:00
Subject: Re: shell, ruby and regexp

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On 2006.10.03 16:05, Une b?vue wrote:
> Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote:
>=20
> >=20
> > What's wrong with the original string enclosed in quotes?
> >=20
> > Instead of:
> >=20
> > ruby test_args.rb /to.*/
> >=20
> > Type this instead:
> >=20
> > ruby test_args.rb "/to.*/"
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> ok i've done THE MISTAKE to rememeber zsh as a priority over ruby )))
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> my answer to "What's wrong with the original string enclosed in quotes?"
>=20
> that didn't work, my script sees it as a string and even if (for this
> arg and if enclosed with //) :

Everything you get in ARGV is a String. You cannot create Ruby
objects outside Ruby.

> this_arg=3DRegexp.new(this_arg)
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> then if this arg =3D "/to.*/"
>=20
> i get :
>=20
> puts this_arg.source # (after Regexp.new)
>=20
> # =3D> /to.*/ INSTEAD OF to.*

You have a few choices. You can pass in '/to.*/' and strip off the /'s,
you can #eval it or you could pass in 'to.*' instead and then interpolate=
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or Regexp.new it.

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