From: Jeremy Woertink Date: 2007-09-19T06:12:08+09:00 Subject: Regexp help K, so I suck at regular expressions. I just don't seem to understand them. What I want to do is determine if a string includes 2 special characters a semi-colon and a question mark. Here's my example that I'm trying to work with. irb(main):009:0> encoding = ";6277200301500269=?" => ";6277200301500269=?" irb(main):010:0> encoding.include?(%r{;\?}.to_s) => false irb(main):011:0> I want this to return true, but it doesn't Can anyone help me out? thanks, ~Jeremy -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.