From: "toulax@..." <toulax@...>
Date: 2007-06-29T12:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with regular expression

Like I said it has to be a regular expression, nothing else, any
ideas?

On Jun 28, 11:24 pm, "Stephen Ball" <sdb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/28/07, dbl...@wobblini.net <dbl...@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