From: "Sandor Szücs" <sandor.szuecs@...>
Date: 2008-08-06T18:47:53+09:00
Subject: Re: break if status =~ /variable/    wildcard possible in Ruby?

On 05.08.2008, at 15:54, Mmcolli00 Mom wrote:

> Can you use a wild card with a variable? I have StrgErrFieldName as a
> variable that will hold a number of possible status ids. I want to
> search on what is in the variable. However =~ only works with  
> strings so
> I have tried putting the variable in inside the '/'.

Use #{var}.

irb> s="abcdef";
irb> m="b";
irb> s =~ /#{m}/
=> 1


regards, Sandor Szücs
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