From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T21:17:21+09:00
Subject: Re: newby asks: giving regexps as argument for funvtions

>>>>> "P" == =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Pe=F1a=2C Botp=22?= <iso-8859-1> writes:

P> irb(main):001:0> def findPosRE(str, re)
P> irb(main):002:1> m = %r{#{re}}.match(str)
P> SyntaxError: compile error
P> (irb):2: syntax error
P>         from (irb):2
P>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 Well, apparently this is corrected with irb 0.9 which is in 1.7.3

pigeon% irb
irb(main):001:0> def findPosRE(str, re)
irb(main):002:1> m = %r{#{re}}.match(str)
irb(main):003:1> end
nil
irb(main):004:0> 
pigeon% 

pigeon% irb -v
irb 0.9(02/07/03)
pigeon% 


Guy Decoux