From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2007-02-15T02:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Puzzling regex behaviour

On Feb 14, 8:51 am, Ian Macdonald <i...@caliban.org> wrote:
> On Wed 14 Feb 2007 at 23:42:10 +0900, Ian Macdonald wrote:
>
> > On Wed 14 Feb 2007 at 18:00:22 +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
>
> > > Another idea: maybe the readline lib interferes with encodings somehow
> > > in IRB?  What happens if you invoke your script from within IRB via "load"?
>
> > It runs as if run from the command line:
>
> > irb(main):001:0> load 'foo'
> > 2
> > 2
>
> I beg your pardon. I must have had the locale set incorrectly on that
> run. It runs as if typed interactively into irb:
>
> $ irb
> irb(main):001:0> load 'foo'
> nil
> 2

Phewsh. Combined with the behavior you reported for loading a global
and then matching in IRB, I had feared the world had gone insane. At
least its consistently weird and the regexp match is, in fact, the
culprit.