From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-14T13:03:30+09:00
Subject: Re: checking if a string matches a regexp - am I missing something?

On Jan 13, 2007, at 9:43 PM, Rob Sanheim wrote:

> I figure that I must be missing something really obvious with this
> question.  But here goes:
>
> I want to know if a string matches a regular expression.  I don't care
> where the match begins, I don't want a matchdata object, I don't want
> to check for nil, I just want a boolean indicating if a string matches
> a regexp.  And I want this to be one method call.  From what I can
> tell, this is the closest I can get:
>
> ("string" =~ reg) >= 0 # ugly

Just drop the noise:

"string" =~ reg # => int results are +true+ and nil is +false+

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II