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jruby-unicode-regex-bug.rb
# encoding: UTF-8
# String interpolation into regexes appears to break unicode property names.
# This script works under MRI 1.9.2
# Breaks under jruby --1.9
# The following two scenarios work
puts /[\p{L}]/u
puts /[#{"\\p{L}"}]/u
# this one raises an exception
# RegexpError: (RegexpError) invalid character property name {L}: /\p{L}/
b = "\\p{L}"
puts /[#{b}]/u
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