From: Judson Lester <nyarly@...>
Date: 2007-12-14T05:06:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp Matching Not Blank And Not A Specific Word?

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On Dec 13, 2007 11:09 AM, Phrogz <phrogz@mac.com> wrote:

> irb(main):006:0> tests = [ "", "dog", "cat", "doggone it" ]
> => ["", "dog", "cat", "doggone it"]
>
> irb(main):007:0> tests.each do |str|
> irb(main):008:1*   hit = (str =~ /^(?!dog).+$|^dog.+$/)
> irb(main):009:1>   puts "#{str.inspect} => #{hit.inspect}"
> irb(main):010:1> end
> "" => nil
> "dog" => nil
> "cat" => 0
> "doggone it" => 0


 Just to shill for a moment:

I was doing that kind of irb stuff so often for regexps in Ruby, I wrote
this:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/regexpbench/
http://regexpbench.rubyforge.org/

Hope it's useful.

Judson

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