From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T21:21:20+09:00
Subject: Re: newby asks: giving regexps as argument for funvtions



> ts [mailto:decoux@moulon.inra.fr] informs:
> ....
> 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% 
> 

Many thanks for the help, sir Guy.
' will update now...

-botp