From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T22:31:22+09:00
Subject: Re: What's going on here with gsub?

Stefan Rusterholz wrote:
> 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

Thanks, Stefan. You're right. I've been a Windows guy so long that I 
overlook the case stuff sometimes. Thanks a lot!

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