On Thu 15 Feb 2007 at 00:40:09 +0900, Phrogz wrote:

> On Feb 14, 8:17 am, Ian Macdonald <i... / caliban.org> wrote:
> > As you can see, interactively irb returns nil for that first regex match.
> 
> Aren't you making the assumption that it's the regex at fault here,
> and not the encoding of the string when you enter it in irb?
> 
> What if you do:
> 
> gavinkistner$ cat set_foo.rb
>   $foo = "prñÇñÓñÔ"
> 
> gavinkistner$ irb
> irb(main):001:0> load 'set_foo.rb'
> => true
> irb(main):001:0> $foo =~ /[^[:alnum:]]/
> ???

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> load 'foo'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> $foo
=> "pr\351f\351r\351es"
irb(main):003:0> $foo =~ /[^[:alnum:]]/
=> nil

It's still nil, I'm afraid.

Ian
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