From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T04:18:55+09:00
Subject: Re: another easy one...

Hi,

I think you just had an extra syntax there.

 c = "C"
 case c
          when /[A-Za-z0-9_]/       # no "c =~" here
                  puts "yip!"
          else
                  puts "nope..."
 end

Regards,

Bill
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Mark Probert <probertm@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:
> That was my original thought:

> $ cat blah.rb
> c = "C"
> case c
>          when c =~ /[A-Za-z0-9_]/
>                  puts "yip!"
>          else
>                  puts "nope..."
> end

> $ ruby !$
> ruby blah.rb
> nope...

> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.7.2 (2002-07-02) [i386-mswin32]



> -mark.