From: dagbrown@... (Dave Brown)
Date: 2003-08-09T08:50:38+09:00
Subject: Re: =~ obsolete?

In article <oprtlut5x0edtuaz@news.tuwien.ac.at>,
meinrad.recheis <my.name.here@gmx.at> wrote:
: hi,
: this is a warning i got while playing around with yaml.
: 
: ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:28: warning: string =~ string will be obsolete; 
: use explicit regexp
: 
: why??

It's string =~ string which is being obsoleted.  If you need to
match a string against a string, use 

    string =~ Regexp.new(otherstring) 

instead.

--Dave