From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-02-08T10:03:04+09:00
Subject: Re: unexpected error:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Chen" <alan@digikata.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: unexpected error:


> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:55:18AM +0900, David Corbin wrote:
> > I'm getting the following runtime error:
> >
> > unexpected error: invalid regular expression; empty character class:
/[]/
> >
> > Is there anyway to find out where in the source this is happening?
>
> This does seem like a nonsensical regexp to me.  Just for my curiosity,
what would it match?

I thought he was saying he wasn't using any such
regular expression, that it was just giving him this
error and bombing.

David:
1. Does it report a line number at all?
2. Are you modifying any of the special
global variables?
3. How long is the source?

Hal Fulton