From: Michael McDaniel <ruby@...>
Date: 2002-04-12T03:16:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Am I going mad? Works in IRB not in a file!

R.Seymour wrote:

> Here is what I got using ruby 1.6.6 on Linux:
> 
> In a file:
> 
> rich@puff:~/ruby$ ruby commatest.rb
> "~, More"
> 
> 
> In IRB:
> 
> irb(main):001:0> x = "\"CommaTest, After\", More"
> "\"CommaTest, After\", More"
> irb(main):002:0> x.gsub!(/\"(.*),(.*)\"/,"#{$1}~#{$2}")
> "~, More"
> irb(main):003:0> p x
> "~, More"
> nil
> 
> So in my case, it was the same output, but not the same as 1.7.2!  :)
> 
> -Rich
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Apologies for any confusion I may have caused.  I _did_ have same result 
with v1.7.2 as Rich is showing here.  I mistakenly did not mention the 
'nil' which is the current output record separator; the 'nil' only prints 
to stdout when using irb, not from within a script.

~mm