From: Stephen Ball <sdball@...>
Date: 2007-06-29T11:24:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with regular expression

On 6/28/07, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> Hi --
> >
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Jesse Hk wrote:
>
> > Am I missing something here? Why not just test for equality?
> >
> >
> > irb(main):001:0> "foo" == "foo"
> > => true
> > irb(main):002:0> "foo" == "bar"
> > => false
>
> That doesn't cover the case where the string includes the substring
> "bar" but also includes other characters.
>
>
> David
>

In that case it still works, so we have:

"foo" => "foo"

irb(main):001:0> "foo" == "foo"
=> true

"bar " => nil

irb(main):002:0> "foo" == "bar"
=> false

"foobar" => nil

irb(main):003:0> "foo" == "foobar"
=> false

-- Stephen