From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-11-22T03:42:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Bug in ruby?

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This is a subject line that's mildly infuriating. I wonder if I can
recall more than three threads of that name that actually were a bug in
Ruby after all in the past year, and the one that's in living memory was
from Ara, and (unsurprisingly) a very subtle issue where it took me
three reads to find out why it's wrong behaviour in the first place, not
a "method not working at all" issue.

If you're not a syntax lawyer, and / or haven't checked the
documentation for what you're using a code snippet in the first place,
I'd say odds are good it's a bug in your code due to some (maybe not
really) gotcha you overlooked. And in that case it would be better to
present a problem as such, and providing a more informative subject line
to boot.

Also:

def parse(string, start, ending)
 string.match(/#{Regexp.escape(start)}.*(?=3D#{Regexp.escape(ending)}/)[0=
]
end

David Vallner


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