From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2007-09-30T17:45:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expresion Error?

Filipe wrote:
> def showRE(a,re)
>   #re = Regexp.new(re) if re.class==String
>   #re=Regexp.new(re.to_s) if re.class==Integer
>   if a=~re
>     "#{$`}<<#{$&}>>#{$'}"
>   else
>     "no match"
>   end
> end
>
> puts showRE("Hello", /(\w)\1/)          #=> no match
> puts showRE("Hello", /(\w{1,1})\1/)   #=> He<<ll>>o

Both return "He<<ll>>o" for me.
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-23 patchlevel 110) [x86_64-linux]


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