From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-04-15T00:12:39+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I call a regex from C?

On Tuesday, 15 April 2003 at  0:06:08 +0900, ts wrote:
> >>>>> "J" == Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:
> 
> J>  // I don't think this is allowed -------v
> J>  rb_funcall(line, "gsub!", 2, re_equal, "=") 
> 
>  not allowed : you must give only VALUE
> 
> J>  // should probably be this.
> J>  rb_funcall(line, "gsub!", 2, re_equal, sp) 
> 
>  yes, this must work if you replace "gsub!" with rb_intern("gsub!")
> 
> J> What if I want to replace with an empty string ""?
> 
>    rb_str_new2("")
> 

Cool. Ok, I can do all that. However, the following aborts:

  re_equal      = rb_reg_regcomp("\\s*=\\s");
  re_space      = rb_reg_regcomp("\\s+");
     

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