From: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@...>
Date: 2003-03-27T07:15:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expresison in Method Problem

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 07:10:04AM +0900, 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

Because in Ruby, constants start with an uppercase letter.
Use a lowercase letter as start of the variable name instead.

-Martin