Bug #5709: Improve Regexp documentation

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p0

[sdaubert (Sylvain Daubert)]

Improve Regexp documentation:

• add a section to explain differences between =~ operator and #match
• in Options section, explain how use options with Regexp.new
• add a section about special global variables ($~ and so on)

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r33977.
Sylvain, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• doc/re.rdoc: Document difference between match and =~, options with
  Regexp.new and global variables. Patch by Sylvain Daubert.
  [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5709]

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

I altered the wording on =~ mentioning Range and String because the operator is generic and may be overridden to perform other types of pattern matching.