From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T20:40:02+09:00
Subject: Re: newby asks: giving regexps as argument for funvtions



> ts [mailto:decoux@moulon.inra.fr] assisted
> ...
>  If you want to give it a String
> 
>    def findPosRE(str, re)
>       m = %r{#{re}}.match(str)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I get a syntax error here, sir Guy. If I replace the first nest {} with ()
(parens), it works fine. I'm running it on irb v0.7.4

>       m.begin(0)
>    end
> 
>    pos = findPosRE ("hey you behind the wall", "behind")
>