From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-10-09T00:48:47+09:00
Subject: Re: shorthand notation for multiline in regexps?

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 00:09:23 +0900, Carl Youngblood wrote:
> Is there a way to declare a multiline or ignorecase regexp without using
> Regexp.new()?  I'd like to be able to do something like:

> /someregexp/im

> or something like that, similar to the way perl allows you to put stuff
> after the regexp.  I can't find anything about this in Programming Ruby.

Yes. /someregexp/im will do multiline and ignorecase.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.10.08
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