From: Jeff Myers <jeff43023@...>
Date: 2010-09-15T04:16:36+09:00
Subject: beginner's q about eval and/or code blocks

This ruby program successfully prints all 5-letter words starting with
'j'
(in a text file containing all current U.S. English Scrabble words).

fp = File.open('C:\Documents and Settings\User\twl06FromMac.txt')
fp.each  do |line|
  puts line if line =~ /^j....$/
end

I would like to allow the user to enter the regex rather than have it
hard-coded as above. I've tried to get eval to work after building a
string to pass it. No luck so far.

I'm positive this is easy in Ruby but currently it's driving me nuts.
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