From: Boson <user@...>
Date: 2008-04-10T23:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp.union - set option all patterns case insensitive

Chris Shea wrote:

> I don't know how much better this is, but you could union first, then
> add the case-insensitivity:
> 
> fruits = ["apples","oranges","grapes"]
> r = Regexp.union(*fruits)
> r = Regexp.new(r.source, Regexp::IGNORECASE)  # => /apples|oranges|
> grapes/i

This solution works. Thanks.

Looking at the Ruby source, it wouldn't be hard to add an options
parameter to Regexp.union to avoid such re-conversions.