From: Dejan Dimic <dejan.dimic@...>
Date: 2008-07-20T18:11:05+09:00
Subject: Re: filtering email addresses

On Jul 20, 10:15 am, Luca Scaljery <lca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I'm trying to filter email adresses like this
>
> #! /usr/bin/ruby
>
> email = "test_test.test"
>
> if email.scan(/\@/)
>   p "yes"
> end
>
> For some reason my program always prints 'yes'
>
> How would should I do this ?
>
> thnx
> LuCa
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String#scan
     str.scan(pattern)                         => array
     str.scan(pattern) {|match, ...| block }   => str
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so if email.scan(/\@/) is always true ;-)