From: bbiker <renard@...>
Date: 2007-11-30T11:50:02+09:00
Subject: Re: IO.expect: where can I find documentation??

On Nov 28, 9:53 pm, Dan Caugherty <dan.caughe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Jordan!
>
> So it looks like the timeout value is really only passed to
> IO#select.  Would this imply then that Floats as well as Fixnums could
> be used?
>
> I personally don't see why not, but the docs clearly say only a Fixnum
> can be used as a timeout value. [ shrug ]
>
> What do y'all think?
>
> Rgds,
> -- Dan

Have a floatnum regex for 'pattern'  /\d+.\d+/ ?