From: aidy <aidy.rutter@...>
Date: 2006-08-16T01:35:16+09:00
Subject: || and RegEx

Hi,

Here is a snippet of a case statement

 read_in_test_data.each { |x|
 line = x.chomp
 case line
 	 when /^Provinces:$/ || /^Town:$/
 	 	task = :provinces
 else
     #whatever
 end

 || should evaluate to true if either operands are true.

 When I ran through the debugger:

 var line == "Provinces:" # the task is set
 var line == "Town:" # the task is not set

 I change the expression to &&

 when /^Provinces:$/ && /^Town:$/

 var line == "Provinces:" # the task is not set
 var line == "Town:" # the task is set
 
 Could anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
 
 aidy