Re: pipe question

From	Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.ruby
Subject	Re: pipe question
Date	2011-04-05 04:01 -0500
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Josh Cheek wrote in post #990806:
> If you put a regex in a
> variable, it treats it as a boolean "is it an object?" and behaves as I
> stated previously. But if you put it in a literal, it plays Perl and
> checks
> to see if it matches against $_

Yes, this is a very ugly inheritance from Perl. Check out the flip-flop 
operator too :-)

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pipe question wolf volpi <wolf_volpi@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-03 21:58 -0500
  Re: pipe question John Feminella <johnf@bitsbuilder.com> - 2011-04-03 22:08 -0500
    Re: pipe question Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-04 02:36 -0500
  Re: pipe question Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 22:42 -0500
    Re: pipe question Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 04:58 -0500
      Re: pipe question Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-05 04:01 -0500
    Re: pipe question 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-04 19:12 -0500
      Re: pipe question Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 22:30 -0500
        Re: pipe question Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-05 10:27 -0500
        Re: pipe question 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-05 21:06 -0500
        Re: pipe question Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 02:00 -0500
      Re: pipe question Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 21:23 -0500
  Re: pipe question wolf volpi <wolf_volpi@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-03 23:55 -0500

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