From: ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-01-09T15:44:51+09:00
Subject: Re: how to generate dynamic regexp pattern from strings?


On Jan 8, 2008, at 11:39 PM, Nanyang Zhan wrote:

> Hi, Could anyone tell me how to generate regexp pattern from strings?
>
> for example, how to code the return_pattern(str) method?
> thanks!
>
> str = "^test|production-(\\d+)"
> return_pattern(str) ===> /^test|production-(\d+)/
>
> def return_pattern(str)
> ?????????????????
> end
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>

Regexp.escape string

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