From: Jeff <jdonner0@...>
Date: 2002-02-17T11:41:57+09:00
Subject: Hi, this code: 	text0 = "One $BLAH Three" 	text1 = "One @BLAH Three" 	text0.sub!("$BLAH", "Two") 	text1.sub!("@BLAH", "Two") 	print text0,"\n" 	print text1,"\n" 	produces thiHi, this code: 	text0 = "One $BLAH Three" 	text1 = "One @BLAH Three" 	text0.sub!("$BLAH", "Two") 	text1.sub!("@BLAH", "Two") 	print text0,"\n" 	print text1,"\n" 	prodQuirk or bug; substituting strings with '$' in them

Hi, this code:

text0 = "One $BLAH Three"
text1 = "One @BLAH Three"
text0.sub!("$BLAH", "Two")
text1.sub!("@BLAH", "Two")
print text0,"\n"
print text1,"\n"


produces this output:

One $BLAH Three
One Two Three

Is the '$' meant to be special at runtime like this?

This was with Ruby 1.6.6.

Thanks,

JDonner


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