Thanks for you help Stefano!

I can't find a .irbrc file, and my mac is set up so hidden files are 
shown so that's not the problem.

Running irb -f does show the "irb(main):001:0>" , so that's half the 
battle!

Still getting the unknown regexp though, even with the -f command.

any ideas?

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