From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-07-06T09:50:13+09:00
Subject: Pattern Matching Problem

Ok. I have a major pattern matching problem. In essence, right now  
the word i am trying to match is "hello", WITH double quotes around it.

Why isn't this working? It always hits the else part of my case-when  
loop.

write_file = open('albuminfo.txt', 'w')
lines.each do |line|
   puts line
   case line
   when line =~ /^(.+)$/
     write_file.puts('"#{$1}"')
     write_file.close
     print '.'
   else
     print '$'
   end
end

It doesn't want to match!

Please don't let me drown,
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~Ari
"I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it" --1337est  
man alive