From: Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>
Date: 2008-09-05T03:11:28+09:00
Subject: Re: String#match vs. Regexp#match - confused

On 9/4/08, Old Echo <kodama@bluexpanse.net> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I'm very puzzled by the following:
>
> a = ".*me"
> b = /.*me/
> test = "dont_ignore.me.fixture"
>
> a.match(test)
> => nil
> b.match(test)
> => #<MatchData:0x350fe8>
>
> Huh? When looking through the ri documentation for the "match" method on
> the String class, it says it take the contents of the String and
> converts it to a regexp before doing a match.

test.match a
=> #<MatchData:0x283a534>

The argument is converted to a regexp, not the original String.

-Adam