From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-08-18T16:15:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading contents of a file and storing

2009/8/17 Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu>:
> Robert Dober wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Joel VanderWerf<vjoel@path.berkeley.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> source.gsub(/^([^=]+)=/) {$1 + " "}
>>
>> I was just wondering, should we not refuse to use ^ for the beginning
>> of a string ( even knowing it is a line )? I personally have abandoned
>> ^ for \A for quite some time now. Is nobody going to follow ;).
>
> Didn't the OP want each line converted? It's getting hard to remember...
> Anyway, I did mean ^ in my answer, but maybe I was confused about the
> question.
>
Sorry my bad. I did not realize from the snippet that you were doing
the whole source in one thing. But I should have, given the *g*sub.
Yes of course you need to use ^.
As a matter of fact my point was not to use it on lines, because ^
matches at the beginning of a *line* while when we are treating lines
there are no lines anymore and we want to match at the beginning of a
*string*, hence \A.

Cheers
Robert