From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-11-29T02:28:40+09:00
Subject: Re: simple regexp question

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:09:21PM +0900, Shannon Fang 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...
This is read as 'string! ~/pattern/', so ruby tries to call method '!'
on object string, taking the argument '~ /pattern/' (~ == bitwise
negation).
 
> I'll have to write
> 
> if !(string=~/pattern/) then...
> 
> Any suggestion?

Use spaces around operators :)

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