From: "list. rb" <list.rb@...>
Date: 2007-06-29T11:40:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with regular expression

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some_string unless some_string.match("bar")

On 6/28/07, Stephen Ball <sdball@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>

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