From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-12-02T01:11:26+09:00
Subject: Re: HELP version 1.73

Hi --

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Shannon Fang wrote:

> Hi
>
> Urgent... I just installed ruby 1.73, some strange thing happened pls
> read the following warning message:
>
> ./test.rb:90: warning: string pattern instead of regexp; metacharacters
> no longer effective
>
> While test.rb:90 is:
>
> ha=line.split("\s*:\s*")
>
> Is there some fundamental change taking place? Do I need to revert to
> version 1.67? I have no problem there...

Well, judging from the warning message, I'd say that in 1.7.3,
metacharacters are no longer effective in string arguments to
String#split :-)

Use a regular expression instead:

  ha = line.split(/\s*:\s*/)


David

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