From: Simon Krahnke <overlord@...>
Date: 2009-01-29T20:32:44+09:00
Subject: Re: if statement not working with Hash object

* Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@googlemail.com> (2009-01-20) schrieb:

> Mmcolli00 Mom wrote:
>> if word != /Date1|packageId/ then �#<----------does not evaluate, i am
>> not sure if i am using hash correctly
>
> This has nothing to do with hashes. word is a string /Date1|packageId/ is a 
> regexp. They will never be equal. I'm pretty sure you want !~ ("does not 
> match") instead of != ("is not equal to") there.

Shouldn't the statement above always be executed then?

mfg,                         simon .... l