From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-08-21T19:50:02+09:00
Subject: Re: How to convert string "/regexp/i" to /regexp/i - ?

2009/8/21 Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>:
> 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))

"Regexp.new" is superfluous:

irb(main):002:0> eval("/regexp/i").class
=> Regexp
irb(main):003:0>

Cheers

robert


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