From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-01-31T17:09:49+09:00
Subject: No difference between .. and ... flip/flop operators?


I thought .. meant inclusive and ... meant 'not including matching lines'.

Why do these snippets both do exactly the same thing:

irb(main):032:0> File.open('filename') {|f|
irb(main):033:1*   f.each_line{|l|
irb(main):034:2*     puts l if l=~/BEGIN/ .. l=~/END/
irb(main):035:2>   } 
irb(main):036:1> }

Output:
 10 BEGIN PATTERN
 eleven
 12
 thirteen
 14 END PATTERN


irb(main):026:0> File.open('filename') {|f|
irb(main):027:1*   f.each_line{|l|
irb(main):028:2*     puts l if l=~/BEGIN/ ... l=~/END/
irb(main):029:2>   }
irb(main):030:1> }

Output:
 10 BEGIN PATTERN
 eleven
 12
 thirteen
 14 END PATTERN

Both .. and ... produced the same output.  I would have expected the 
output of the second snippet to be:

 eleven
 12
 thirteen

???

Phil