shorthand notation for multiline in regexps?

[Carl Youngblood]

Is there a way to declare a multiline or ignorecase regexp without using
Regexp.new()? I'd like to be able to do something like:

/someregexp/im

or something like that, similar to the way perl allows you to put stuff
after the regexp. I can't find anything about this in Programming Ruby.

Carl Youngblood

 

[Robert Klemme]

Is there a way to declare a multiline or ignorecase regexp without using
Regexp.new()? I'd like to be able to do something like:

/someregexp/im

or something like that, similar to the way perl allows you to put stuff
after the regexp. I can't find anything about this in Programming Ruby.

MY_LONG_COMMENTED_REGEXP = /
(\w+) # given name
\s+
(\w+) # surname
\s+
(\d+) # age
/mix

Reegards

robert