From: Greg Millam <walker@...>
Date: 2002-12-18T17:12:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex#=== with non-string argument

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> x = 1
>
> case x
> when 5;       puts "5"
> when 42;      puts "42"
> when /abc/;   puts "matches /abc/"
> when "xyz";   puts "xyz"
> end

x = 1
puts case
  when x == 5; "5"
  when x == 42; "42"
  when /abc/ =~ x.to_s; "matches /abc/"
  when "xyz" == x.to_s; "xyz"
  else "none"
end

case without a statement matches any expression that evaluates to a
non-false, non-nil argument

Hope that's what you want
- Greg.

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Greg Millam
walker at deafcode.com