From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-30T15:43:15+09:00
Subject: Re: What's with -F in 1.8?

Hi,

In message "What's with -F in 1.8?"
    on 03/07/30, Jason Creighton <androflux@softhome.net.remove.to.reply> writes:

|ruby 1.8.0 (2003-07-24) [i686-linux]
|/usr/src/ruby-1.6.8$ /usr/bin/ruby -F'[aeiou]+' -wane 'p $F'
|Hello, this is just a little test. Don't panic.
|-e:1: warning: string pattern instead of regexp; metacharacters no longer effective
|["Hello, this is just a little test. Don't panic.\n"]
|I think it wants to split on a literal [aeiou]+, right?
|-e:1: warning: string pattern instead of regexp; metacharacters no longer effective
|["I think it wants to split on a literal ", ", right?\n"]
|
|What gives? Why don't Ruby 1.8 use a regex with -F?

It's a bug.  Thank you for finding it before 1.8.0 final.

							matz.