From: Warren Brown <wkb@...>
Date: 2003-07-24T07:27:24+09:00
Subject: Re: "regex literal in condition"

Daniel,

> I'm getting an erorr that I don't understand.
>
> # My code
> while gets.
>     break if (/\<\!-{19} ending left_colum -{11}\>/)
> end

    You've probably already figured this out, but the problem is the dot (.)
after the call to gets in the first line.  I'm not too sure at first glance
how ruby is parsing this, but any way you look at it, it's gonna' get it
wrong.

    I hope this helps!

    - Warren Brown