--- !ruby/object:RI::MethodDescription aliases: [] block_params: comment: - !ruby/struct:SM::Flow::P body: Returns a string containing the regular expression and its options (using the (?xxx:yyy) notation. This string can be fed back in to Regexp::new to a regular expression with the same semantics as the original. (However, Regexp#== may not return true when comparing the two, as the source of the regular expression itself may differ, as the example shows). Regexp#inspect produces a generally more readable version of rxp. - !ruby/struct:SM::Flow::VERB body: " r1 = /ab+c/ix #=> /ab+c/ix\n s1 = r1.to_s #=> "(?ix-m:ab+c)"\n r2 = Regexp.new(s1) #=> /(?ix-m:ab+c)/\n r1 == r2 #=> false\n r1.source #=> "ab+c"\n r2.source #=> "(?ix-m:ab+c)"\n" full_name: Regexp#to_s is_singleton: false name: to_s params: | rxp.to_s => str visibility: public