From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2003-12-24T01:14:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Strings to regexps (non-demanding post :->)

James F. Hranicky wrote:

>
>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?
>
>Jim
>
>  
>

You can use %r, and then specify your own delimiter:

  line.match( %r|/usr/local/lib/blah/blah| )

-- 
Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu

ruby -h | ruby -e 'a=[];readlines.join.scan(/-(.)\[e|Kk(\S*)|le.l(..)e|#!(\S*)/) {|r| a << r.compact.first };puts "\n>#{a.join(%q/ /)}<\n\n"'