From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T05:39:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Speed up suggestions

GOTO Kentaro wrote:
> By the way, in 1.7.x, String#split behavior was changed about a month ago:
> 
>   % ruby17 -e 'p "a\nb".split("\\n")'
>   -e:1: warning: string pattern instead of regexp; metacharacters no longer effective
>   ["a\nb"]
>   % ruby17 -e 'p "a\\nb".split("\\n")'
>   -e:1: warning: string pattern instead of regexp; metacharacters no longer effective
>   ["a", "b"]

Thank you. I've missed this change. Both in the "not seen it yet" sense
and in the "I wish it was that way" sense. :-)

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