From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-09-08T21:20:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Small improvements ideas ?

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Chris <christophe.gimenez@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I would like to know how to shorten these two lines
>
> 1) doit() if my_string && my_string.downcase == 'hello'

doit if /\Ahello\z/i =~ my_string

> 2) doit() if one_var && (my_string =~ /this_regexp/) == nil

doit if one_var && /rx/ !~ my_string

> Case 1) is a way to check for my_string beeing nil (would break on
> downcase call). But it's verbose, nothing better ??
>
> Case 2) I want doit beeing call if regexp don't match. would I use !
> (my_string =~ /this_regexp/) but I don't like using ! because it's not
> very readable and I can't use not keyword in this case

Kind regards

robert

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