From: gminick <gminick@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T02:37:04+09:00
Subject: Re: another easy one...

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:09:45AM +0900, Mark Probert wrote:
> Say, ch is a character and I want to find if it
> exists in a regexp /A-Za-z0-9_/.  How do I do it?
> 
>         irb> c.include?(/A-Za-z0-9_/)
>         "TypeError: cannot convert Regexp into String"
Don't know if it is possible to use include? here,
but you can do this with "=~":

c =~ /[A-Za-z0-9_]/

Returns 0 if true, nil if false.
HTH.

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