From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2010-09-08T21:27:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Small improvements ideas ?

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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

ruby-1.9.2-p0 > /hello/ =~ nil
 => nil

wow, learnt something today!

martin