From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-07-10T17:58:35+09:00
Subject: Re: String#split converts string args to regexes -- ?

Hi,

In message "Re: String#split converts string args to regexes -- ?"
    on 02/07/10, Stepan Kasal <kasal@matsrv.math.cas.cz> writes:

|But there were voices saying that (b) would be useful, since escaping may
|be complicated.  But alternatively, you could provide something like
|Regexp.new_const(s) which would create a regexp matching string s
|(ie. no character is interpreted as meta character).

I think you can use Regexp.quote for that purpose, i.e.
  
  Regexp.new_const(s) = Regexp.new(Regexp.quote(s))

							matz.