From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-12-11T10:07:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Two Perl -> Ruby Questions

Hi,

In message "Two Perl -> Ruby Questions"
    on 02/12/11, "Austin Ziegler" <austin@halostatue.ca> writes:

|1. What is the equivalent of Perl's eval BLOCK form of eval? Per "man perlfunc": "the code within the block is parsed only once..." Of course, I'm not exactly sure why an eval is being done in the code that I'm looking at, but seeing a Ruby equivalent may help.

eval BLOCK is used for exception handling, so that "begin .. rescue .. end"
should be the answer.

|2. What is the equivalent of Perl's pos SCALAR function? "Returns the offset of where the last m//g search left off for the variable in question.... May be modified to change that offset. Such modification will also influence the \G zero-width assertion in regular expressions."

There's no identical feature.  Show me the original Perl code.

							matz.