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const_regexp

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const_regexp(camel_cased_word) private

Mounts a regular expression, returned as a string to ease interpolation, that will match part by part the given constant.

const_regexp("Foo::Bar::Baz") # => "Foo(::Bar(::Baz)?)?"
const_regexp("::")            # => "::"

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb, line 371
      def const_regexp(camel_cased_word)
        parts = camel_cased_word.split("::")

        return Regexp.escape(camel_cased_word) if parts.blank?

        last = parts.pop

        parts.reverse!.inject(last) do |acc, part|
          part.empty? ? acc : "#{part}(::#{acc})?"
        end
      end

const_regexp

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