From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-07-10T14:27:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby T-Shirt Idea

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From: "Daniel Carrera" <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: Ruby T-Shirt Idea


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> Okay, ignore my last question (except the one about a link to PicAxe).  I
just figured the
> syntax (basically by trying every possible permutation).
>
> Now I have a new question:  Turning a string into a regex.
> Example:
>
> dcarrera ~ $ irb
> >> var = "he"
> => "he"
> >> str = "hello world"
> => "hello world"
> >> str =~ /var/
> => nil
>
> What am I doing wrong?

You can do str =~ /#{var}/ I think...

Hal