On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 10:58:47AM +0900, Peñá, Botp wrote:
> # > feature request: i hope fri remove the case sensitivity. eg,
> # > C:\Documents and Settings\peñáijm>fri string.split
> # > nil
> # 
> # Seems convenient, I'll implement it.
> 
> wow, thanks much, Mauricio.
> 
> btw, i installed fastri  0.1.0.1 using rubygems on another mswindows pc. The
> install went fine but when i started to run fastri-server, it balked. The
> program cannot find the HOME var. So what I did was just create it and
> equate it like HOME=%HOMEDIR%+%HOMEPATH%. Everything went fine then...
> (note, not all win pcs have HOME var set)

Should be fixed in 0.1.1, which I just released, as well as the issue with
executable extensions (and all the other problems reported on this thread).
Now the search strategy can be specified, and includes case-independent
variants, so:

$ fri string.split
----------------------------------------------------------- String#split
     str.split(pattern=$;, [limit])   => anArray
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Divides str into substrings based on a delimiter, returning an 
     array of these substrings.
[...]

The less specific you are, the longer a lookup can take, but fri's slowest
search modes are still much faster than ri :)

Here's case-independent, nested, partial matching at work:

$ fri writer.rend
----------------------------------------------------- PDF::Writer#render
     render(debug = false)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Return the PDF stream as a string.


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