From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2008-01-25T22:48:01+09:00
Subject: Re: regex issue

On Jan 25, 2008 2:34 PM, Junkone <junkone1@gmail.com> wrote:
> my pattern should match either import or delete
> However it does not seem to be working.
>
> irb(main):014:0> pattern="([import]|[delete])"
> => "([import]|[delete])"
> irb(main):015:0> pattern.match("import")
> => #<MatchData:0x2e76f9c>
> irb(main):016:0> $1
> => nil

Try this:

irb(main):004:0> pattern=/(import|delete)/
=> /(import|delete)/
irb(main):005:0> pattern.match "import"
=> #<MatchData:0xb7cd1434>
irb(main):006:0> $1
=> "import"

Pattern should be a regular expression. Also I think you don't want
square brackets, because that means matching any one character in the
set, not the word.

Jesus.