From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2002-11-28T16:33:36+09:00
Subject: Re: simple regexp question

Shannon Fang <xrfang@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In ruby, I can use the following to match a regexp:
> 
> if string=~/pattern/ then ...
> 
> However, the following does not work,
> 
> if string!~/pattern/ then...
> 
> I'll have to write
> 
> if !(string=~/pattern/) then...

Since method names can include !, this gets read as 
 if string! ~ /pattern/
and fails because there's no Object#string!

Both the following work:

if string !~ pattern
if "hello world"!~ pattern

martin