From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2010-09-29T22:24:55+09:00
Subject: Re: unknown regexp options


On Sep 29, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Gary Rutledge wrote:

> The content of the file is just:
>
> puts "test"
>
> The irb session is:
>
>>> load /Users/gary/Desktop/test.rb

Try:

load "/Users/gary/Desktop/test.rb"

Otherwise, it looks like a literal regular expression.

-Rob

> SyntaxError: compile error
> (irb):3: unknown regexp options - gary
>  from (irb):3
>>>
>
> The .rb file was written in textedit with no rich text.  I was using
> netbeans and my theory was that netbeans was  throwing in some meta  
> data
> with the file location that ruby was picking up and processing as a
> regular expression. But textedit is the same so I don't think that's  
> the
> problem.
> -- 
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>

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