From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-03-29T05:30:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp to match strings that _don't_ being with a string

Wes Gamble <weyus@att.net> writes:

> Andrew,
>
> That works fine.
>
> In actuality, I do need the ability to pass one regex to do the job into 
> another utility that will use it to operate on an array of strings.
>
> So although !~ is cool, I really didn't want to have to iterate through 
> the strings myself.
>
> Thanks,
> Wes

I always wanted to propose a ~ operator for Regexps. ;-)
The current behavior is next to useless.

It wouldn't be difficult to add... also, see lib/eregex.rb.

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