From: khaines@...
Date: 2007-01-14T13:09:17+09:00
Subject: Re: checking if a string matches a regexp - am I missing something?

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Rob Sanheim wrote:

> 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:
>
> reg = /\w/
> reg === "string"   # close, but I want to send the message to the
> string, not the other way around
> ("string" =~ reg) >= 0 # ugly
> ("string" =~ reg) != 0 # still ugly
> "string".include? reg # this would seem to follow the ruby way, but it
> throws a TypeError

What am I not understanding here?

"string" =~ reg


Kirk Haines