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I don't fully understand the situation when a regex would work. Could you
give me one?

-mark

On 4/17/06, Jamal Mazrui <Jamal.Mazrui / fcc.gov> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response.  Is there a way to do this without a regular
> expression?  To further explain, I want the program to be able to do any
> kind of literal string replacement at runtime, except that case is
> ignored.  If I use a regular expression as the match string, then
> certain characters could be interpreted in special, non-literal ways,
> which is not what I want in this case.
>
> Jamal
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Van Holstyn [mailto:mvette13 / gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 12:25 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Beginner gsub and ri questions
>
>
> "DOG" =~ /dog/i
>
> On 4/17/06, Jamal Mazrui <Jamal.Mazrui / fcc.gov> wrote:
> >
> > How can I do a case-insensitive global substitution?  Suppose, for
> > example, a string contained occurences of DOG, Dog, dog, and mistyped
> > dOg.  I want every instance to be replaced by cat (without having to
> > test for each case permutation).
> >
> > How can I generate a large text file containing all ri documentation
> > available on my system?  I would like the topics to be in as logical
> an
> > order as possible, and in alphabetical order otherwise.  I would like
> to
> > place a \r\n\f\r\n sepearater sequence between each topic.
> >
> > Jamal
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Mark Van Holstyn
> mvette13 / gmail.com
> http://lotswholetime.com
>
>


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