Split warning

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Thanks for the info. It is a relief.

-Ted

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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 04:05:18 +0900
Posted: 22 Aug 2002 13:14:07 -0600
From: Tom Sawyer transami@transami.net
Subject: Re: split warning
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i believe the final decision was to change it per the overall opinions.
prior to this only a single character string was actually treated as a
string, all others were converted to regexp. now it will be as you have
pointed out: strings will be string and regexps regexps :slight_smile:

so:

“abc”.split(“\r\n”) # as string
“abc”.split(/\r\n/) # as regexp

the warning that you saw was put in to let people know about this
change. yes, some older code will have to be touched up.

~transami

p.s. please correct if i misrepresented any of this.

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 11:12, mengx@nielsenmedia.com wrote:

Thanks.

I just browsed several records and seemed to me that
quite a few people (and including me) like to see that
“split” based on argument type. If it is a string, then
use string as the separator. For Regexp, use the Regexp.
This is basically the Ruby way to overload “split” method.

Was there a final decision on this? A lot of codes could break
due to this change.

Thanks

-Ted

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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:32:26 +0900
Posted: 22 Aug 2002 09:41:13 -0600
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see ruby-talk 44019 and subsequent responses

-transami

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 08:38, mengx@nielsenmedia.com wrote:

Hi:

With the laster cvs version, ruby gives warning

$ruby -e ‘“abc”.split(“\r\n”)’
-e:1: warning: string pattern instead of regexp; metacharacters
no longer effective.

What is reason for this change?

Thanks

-Ted

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