From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-05-12T22:18:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp: why does (re)* return only last repetition?

On Mon, 12 May 2003 17:39:19 +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> Clifford Heath:
>> Robert Klemme wrote:
>>> Clifford Heath:
>>>> re = Regexp.new('[a-z\\]')
>>> Why not simply do
>>> re = /[a-z\\]/
>> Because it was part of a larger extended re.
> But you can still use re = /.../ instead of re = Regexp.new '...'

Again, if and only if one is specifying the regular expression
statically.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2003.05.12 at 09:15:33