From: Barun Singh <barunio@...>
Date: 2009-01-29T09:19:15+09:00
Subject: Re: error with regular expression inside eval block

I単aki Baz Castillo wrote:
> El Jueves, 29 de Enero de 2009, Barun Singh escribi坦:
>>
>>  >> outputs "nil" to the screen
>>
>> Could someone explain why the eval statement returns an incorrect result
>> for the regexp match?  Thanks...
> 
> It works if you escape the \ with \\ :
> 
>   eval %Q{'1' =~ /^[\\d]+$/}
>   => 0
> 
> Not sure why the \ must be escaped into a block code.

Ah, thanks that worked. I wonder why extra escaping is needed just 
because it's in a block...
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