From: HarryO <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-10-20T21:07:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22823] Re: PLease condense my code

In article <3BD113C9.BB4E5BB@bayarea.net>, "Frank Mitchell"
<frankm@bayarea.net> wrote:

>> Actually, does this one not work:
>> 
>> while gets
>>   print if (!(/=begin/../=end/) && !(/^=[-a-zA-Z0-9. ]*=/))
>> end

Can someone explain what the "!(/=begin/../=end/)" does?

My guess is that it means that the current line is not somewhere
between lines that match those two regular expressions.  Is that
right?

Feel free to point me to a section of the pickaxe book (preferably with
a page number, if possible).