From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-12-24T01:12:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Strings to regexps (non-demanding post :->)

James F. Hranicky wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 03:12:57 +0900
> Elias Athanasopoulos <elathan@phys.uoa.gr> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I had this "problem", too. I can't see why Ruby is so verbose on
that
>>and doesn't interpret foo.gsub[!]("bar", ...) as foo.gsub[!](/bar/,
...) 
>>automagically...
> 
> 
> The main reason I like this 
> 
> 	line.match('/usr/local/lib/blah/blah/blah')
> 
> is so I don't have to escape forward slashes:
> 
> 	line.match(/\/usr\/local\/lib\/blah\/blah/)
> 
> I suppose writing this
> 
> 	line.match(Regexp.new("/usr/local/lib/blah/blah/blah"))
> 
> works, though a touch less elegant. No biggie, though. Perhaps
there's a
> better way than that?

Don't know if you'd consider this "better", but there's /another/
way...

p "foo/bar/baz".match(%r{foo/bar})

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