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instance method

Regexp#inspect

() -> ::String

inspect → string

static VALUE
rb_reg_inspect(VALUE re)
{
    if (!reg_initialized_p(re)) {
        return rb_any_to_s(re);
    }
    return rb_reg_desc(re);
}

Returns a nicely-formatted string representation of self:

Example

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

See also #hash #match #fixed_encoding? #match? also in 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0