From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-08-21T19:07:27+09:00
Subject: Re: How to convert string "/regexp/i" to /regexp/i - ?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Pascal J.
Bourguignon<pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> Joao Silva <rubyforum@thisisnotmyrealemail.com> writes:
>
>> Fleck Jean-Julien wrote:
>>> 2009/8/21 Joao Silva <rubyforum@thisisnotmyrealemail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> How i can convert this proper way?
>>>
>>> Try without the quotes
>>>
>>>>> Regexp.new(/regexp/i)
>>> => /regexp/i
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>
>> I cannot do this without quotes - i need get it from string. Only thing
>> i have is "/regexp/i" string.
>
> string="/regexp/i"
> Regexp.new(eval(string))
>
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__
>
Eval is a mighty tool for a tiny task

option  = str[-1] # Ruby 1.9, use [-1,1] in 1.8

Regexp::new(  str[1..-3], option )

HTH
R


-- 
module Kernel
  alias_method :ë, :lambda
end