From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-24T02:47:06+09:00
Subject: Re: another easy one...

Hi --

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Mark Probert wrote:

>
> My brain just isn't working this morn...
>
> 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"
>
> I can do:
>
>          irb> c.count("A-Za-z0-9_")
>          1
>
> And look for a 0 being a non-match.

Try:

  /\w/.match(ch)


David

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