From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-08-17T05:45:11+09:00
Subject: Re: string equivalency

Brad Tilley wrote:
>> b = 'brad'
>>
>> if 'bradsdhsh' == b
>>    puts 'equal'
>> else
>>    puts 'not equal'
>> end
>>
>> Or, as a one liner
>>
>> puts 'bradsdhsh' == b ? 'equal' : 'not equal'
> 
> This is prefered over the String.eql? method? 

I prefer it and it seems most others, too.  Looks better - and note that 
it's not like in Java where there is a significant difference between == 
and equals().

Kind regards

	robert