From: Neil Conway <nconway@...>
Date: 2002-02-18T12:58:12+09:00
Subject: Re: x =~ /pat/, "return type?"

On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 20:40, David Alan Black wrote:
> It actually returns the position in the string where the match
> starts, or nil if there's no match.  If you wanted it to return
> true or false (but not nil), I guess you could do:
> 
>   (x =~ /pat/) && true || false
> 
> Or could you get your class to recognize more general true/false
> equivalences?  Or is there some nicer/shorter way to do it
> I'm not thinking of? :-)

What about:

    (x =~ /pat/) != nil

Cheers,

Neil

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