From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <tjacobs-sndr-019fdb@...>
Date: 2007-06-05T09:51:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby problem with conditional ranges

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:35:25PM +0900, come wrote:

> Implicit match against "$_" is not anymore supported in version 1.8.

Thanks. Your explanation was very helpful. It works better now, but the
range operator *still* catches more than it should. For example:

    #!/usr/bin/ruby -w

    ## one
    ## two
    ## three
    ## four
    ## five

    File.open($0) do |file|
	while file.gets
	    print $_.sub(/^## /, '') if 
		($_ =~ /^## two/)...($_ =~ /^## four/)
	end
    end

prints up to "four" when (as I understand it) it should stop at "three"
since "## four" would make the if-statement false. Am I still missing
something obvious?

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