From: Mark Probert <probertm@..._acm.org>
Date: 2003-08-12T04:59:41+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.0 and =~

"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> did say ...

>> 
>> 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.
> 

Doh!

-laugh-

I tried to use String.scan (it takes a regex) and happened to stumble 
over the answer.  

Thanks for the help!

-- 
-mark.

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