From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T03:14:33+09:00
Subject: Re: string method that takes in a regex

On 10/24/07, Parv G. <ghotrapa@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a string method that takes in a regular expression AND returns
> a boolean value?
>
> Looking at the documentation i can't find a method that meets my
> requirements (very surprising).

String#match takes a regexp and returns either nil or a MatchData.

In Ruby nil is a boolean false, and anything other than nil or false
is a boolean true, so this effectively does return a boolean value.


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