From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-03-27T07:15:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expresison in Method Problem

Hi --

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Nick wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Why does the following give me a problem:
>
> def calc(inValue)
>
>  if(inValue =~ /^([-+]?[0-9]+)([CF])$/)
>   InputValue = $1
>   InputType = $2
>  end
> end
>
> calc('22C')
>
> Error reported is:
>
> RegExp.rbw:24: dynamic constant assignment
>   InputType = $2

It gives that error message because you've dynamically assigned to a
constant :-)  Names beginning with uppercase letters are constants.
Try input_value and input_type.


David

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