From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-04-01T00:04:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Change to /.../.match("foo") behaviour in 1.6.8?

Hi --

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, ts wrote:

> >>>>> "d" == dblack  <dblack@superlink.net> writes:
>
> d> I don't think that's changed.  Can you give a whole demo of the
> d> different behaviors?
>
> pigeon% ./ruby -ve 'a, b = /(.)/.match("ab"); p a,b'
> ruby 1.4.6 (2000-08-16) [i686-linux]
> "a"
> "a"
> pigeon%
>
> pigeon% ./ruby -ve 'a, b = /(.)/.match("ab"); p a,b'
> ruby 1.6.0 (2000-09-19) [i686-linux]
> #<MatchData:0x401adc48>
> nil
> pigeon%

I meant from 1.6.7 to 1.6.8, which was what Austin had mentioned:

  knossos:~$ ruby -ve 'a, b = /(.)/.match("ab"); p a,b'
  ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i686-linux]
  #<MatchData:0x40181a54>
  nil

  dblack@laptop:~$  ruby -ve 'a, b = /(.)/.match("ab"); p a,b'
  ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i686-linux-gnu]
  #<MatchData:0x401bf98c>
  nil


David

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