Backport #3200: String#gsub! doesn't error on frozen string

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -

[candlerb (Brian Candler)]

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gsub! does not raise an error on a frozen string unless a change is actually made. e.g.

s = "a".freeze
=> "a"
s.gsub!(/b/,'')
=> nil

But this is inconsistent with other mutating methods on frozen strings, e.g.

s.squeeze!
TypeError: can't modify frozen string
from (irb):3:in squeeze!' from (irb):3 from :0 s.tr!('b','c') TypeError: can't modify frozen string from (irb):4:in tr!'
from (irb):4
from :0

Not sure if this unexpected behaviour is "bug" or "feature". The ri documentation of String#gsub! doesn't mention this anomaly.

Tested with ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [x86_64-linux] from Ubuntu Karmic
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[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

=begin
1.9.2 does raise an exception, so I guess it would be
"backport".

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[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Project changed from Ruby 1.8 to Backport187
• Description updated (diff)
• Status changed from Open to Closed