End of Life Ruby 3.1 has reached end of life and gets no more fixes. Switch to Ruby 4.0 →

instance method

Regexp#inspect

rxp.inspect → string

static VALUE
rb_reg_inspect(VALUE re)
{
    if (!RREGEXP_PTR(re) || !RREGEXP_SRC(re) || !RREGEXP_SRC_PTR(re)) {
        return rb_any_to_s(re);
    }
    return rb_reg_desc(RREGEXP_SRC_PTR(re), RREGEXP_SRC_LEN(re), re);
}

Produce a nicely formatted string-version of rxp. Perhaps surprisingly, inspect actually produces the more natural version of the string than to_s.

Example

/ab+c/ix.inspect        #=> "/ab+c/ix"

See also #hash #match #fixed_encoding? #match? also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.0

‹ prev#hash next ›#match