On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Konrad Meyer wrote:
"(Regexp.escape) Escapes any characters that would have special meaning in
a regular expression. Returns a new escaped string, or self if no
characters are escaped. For any string, Regexp.escape(str)=~str will be
true."
...
I think it would be more accurate to say:
"str =~ Regexp.escape(str) will be true."
...
While =~ is not an operator, it is a method of String and Regexp
instances, Regexp.escape (from quick irb testing) returns a string.
And String#=~ expects a Regexp instance, not a string. So I think it
would be correct to change that to something like `Regexp.escape(str)
=~ Regexp.new(str) will be true'.
Thanks Konrad and Ryan. Is the attached patch acceptable, documenting both
forms in what I believe is the correct way?
Cheers, Chris.
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