From: Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T22:26:02+09:00
Subject: Re: What's going on here with gsub?

Peter Bailey wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm baffled by this problem. If I define a single file, I can use gsub
> to create the same name, with different extensions. But, when I do it
> with a list of files, it doesn't work. Why is the code below giving me
> nothing but .tif files, when, I'm asking for three different file types:
> tif, png, and pdf?
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter

"TIF" and "tif" is not the same. You probably want the //i switch which 
makes regexen case insensitive. Also I suggest you anchor your regexp, 
else you might have unwanted results. E.g. gsub(/\.tif\z/i, ...)

Regards
Stefan

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