From: Niklas Frykholm <r2d2@...>
Date: 2002-02-18T17:27:02+09:00
Subject: Re: x =~ /pat/, "return type?"

[David Alan Black]:
> 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? :-)

A standard trick for converting to boolean is:

	!!(x =~ /pat/)

// Niklas