From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-01-12T13:20:14+09:00
Subject: RE: Another suggestion for FreeRIDE

Hello --

I seem to be in thorn-in-the-side mode tonight :-)

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Jack Dempsey wrote:

> Here's the code for that: easy, but it'll do the subs...i left the
> outputting of "require english.rb" to the end user...
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>
> text = 'this is some text that uses variables like $!, $;, $=, and $0.'
>
> hash_map = {
>         '$!'  => '$ERROR_INFO',
>         '$@'  => '$ERROR_POSITION',
#  ...

> }
>
> puts text
> hash_map.each { |k,v|
>         text.gsub!(Regexp.escape(k),v)
> }
> puts text

  re = /[abc$!]$/

Trouble...


David

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