From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T03:26:43+09:00
Subject: Re: string method that takes in a regex


On Oct 24, 2007, at 2:06 PM, Parv G. 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).

str = "abc"
str[/bc/]      # "bc" which evaluates as true
str[/bd/]      # nil  which evaluates as false

Gary Wright