From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-01-27T16:28:31+09:00
Subject: Re: It would be nice to be able to get a regexes string back...


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Sam Roberts (sroberts@uniserve.com) wrote:

>=20
> class Decoder
>=20
>    FOO =3D %r{foo}
>    BAR =3D %r{bar}
>=20
>    FOOBAR =3D %r{#{FOO.regex}|#{BAR.regex}}
>=20
>    ...
>=20
> I'm having to do
>=20
>    FOO =3D 'foo'
>=20
>    RE_FOO =3D %r{FOO}
>=20
>=20
> So I can use the regex bits in other regexes, and as regexes themselves.
>=20
> I'd love any suggestions on a nicer way to do this!

[23:27] drbrain@huphu:~/ruby/borges$ ri Regex.source
---------------------------------------------------------- Regexp#source
     rxp.source -> aString
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Returns the original string of the pattern.
        /ab+c/ix.source   #=3D> "ab+c"

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