From: Lars Haugseth <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2012-09-07T16:43:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Not Match?

On 09/06/2012 11:42 PM, Wayne Brisette wrote:
> Either I'm missing it, or I can't be as clever as I want to be. ;)
>
>
> I have some data that I'm evaluating I want to do the opposite of what .match
> does. That is something like this:
>
> puts "No Match" if xxx.match(/found/)
>
> That's the easy part, but I actually want to take action if a match isn't found.
> While I can do something like:
>
> if xxx.match(/found/)
> else
> puts "No Match"
> end
>
> I was hoping not to do that. Is there a more Ruby like way of doing this? Is
> there a 'no match' method I'm overlooking in the docs?

Just negate the match condition with an exclamation mark:

   if !xxx.match(/found/)
     puts "No match"
   end

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Lars Haugseth