From: Jun Young Kim <jykim@...>
Date: 2008-12-11T17:06:30+09:00
Subject: problems in String type argument for Regular Expression

Hi,

I've one program to replace text's contents.

def replace (aPatten, aReplace)
	
	# I need some logic to translate string to patten

	contents = File.read("data")
	contents.gsub!(aPatten, aReplace)
	File.open("result", "w") do |file|
		file << contents
	end
end


Another class give an aPatten argument as a "/[aeiou]/" and aReplace  
as a "*". Both of them are String type.

And I know I can get a normal result when I put in /[aeiou]/ instead  
of "/[aeiou]/".

Any ideas on how to do I convert string to patten?