Eric Hodel <drbrain / segment7.net> writes:

> On Jun 28, 2006, at 1:10 PM, A. S. Bradbury wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 28 June 2006 20:56, Pete wrote:
>>> just too bad the rdoc is inaccurate and says that delete takes a
>>> string
>>> as argument and not a regexp
>>
>> That's actually correct. At first glance I thought it just
>> constructed a regex
>> from the given string (due to its understanding of character ranges).
>> Instead, both String#count and String#delete take this kind of
>> pseudo-regex.
>> Is there a reason it wouldn't make more sense for these methods to
>> take a
>> regexp?
>
> #delete and #count are restricted to character lists, a full regular
> expression is too much.

+1 for adding these to a future Ruby. 

> Eric Hodel - drbrain / segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
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