Hi, At Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:12:31 +0900, James M. Lawrence wrote in [ruby-core:19690]: > % ruby -r pathname -e 'p Pathname("foo") =~ /o/' > nil > > % ruby -r ./lib/pathname.patched.rb -e 'p Pathname("foo") =~ /o/' > 1 In Ruby, Regexp#=~ would be used more preferably than String#=~, I guess. $ ruby -r pathname -e 'p /o/ =~ Pathname("foo")' 1 -- Nobu Nakada