From: yvon.thoravallist@... (Yvon Thoraval)
Date: 2003-09-22T15:29:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] string pattern instead of regexp

Luc Heinrich <lucsky@mac.com> wrote:

> > does that means my term isn't an ANSI one or the syntax as changed ?
> > tuto is mostly from v 1.4 and i'm using v1.8 under MacOS X.2.6
> 
> As far as I know, [...]
> So in short, your gsub won't work like you expect here because you pass
> it a string when you actually want a regexp.
> 
> Replace:
> 
> str.gsub! re, "#{st}\\&#{en}"
> 
> by: [...]
> 
> str.gsub! /#{re}/, "#{st}\\&#{en}"

it's what i've suspected, works fine now, tanxs !
-- 
Yvon