From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-08-12T03:29:57+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.0 and =~

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Probert" <probertm@NOSPAM_acm.org.web-hosting.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 1:19 PM
Subject: ruby 1.8.0 and =~


> 
> Hi, rubyists.
> 
> I have been out of it for a bit and have just started plating with 1.8.0.
> 
> I notice a new warning around =~
>  "warning: string =~ string will be obsolete; use explicit regexp"
> 
> Can someone please tell me the easy way to redo the following?
> 
>    arr.each { |item|
>       if item =~ /blah/
>         info = item.split(/:/)
>         @store[key] = "#{val}:#{info[1].strip}:"
>       end
>    }

No need to redo that one... the item on the
right of =~ is a regex, not a string.

Hal