From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-12-02T01:13:47+09:00
Subject: Re: HELP version 1.73

>>>>> "S" == Shannon Fang <xrfang@hotmail.com> writes:

S> ./test.rb:90: warning: string pattern instead of regexp; metacharacters
S> no longer effective

 Give it a regexp, it want a regexp

S> ha=line.split("\s*:\s*")

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

S> Is there some fundamental change taking place?

 Now if you want to know the difference

pigeon% ruby -ve 'line = "aa\t:\tbb"; ha = line.split("\s*:\s*"); p ha'
ruby 1.7.3 (2002-11-17) [i686-linux]
-e:1: warning: string pattern instead of regexp; metacharacters no longer effective
["aa\t:\tbb"]
pigeon% 

pigeon% /usr/bin/ruby -ve 'line = "aa\t:\tbb"; ha = line.split("\s*:\s*"); p ha'
ruby 1.6.8 (2002-11-09) [i686-linux]
["aa\t", "\tbb"]
pigeon% 

 which probably don't do what you want.



Guy Decoux