[ruby-talk:00888] Re: local / dynamic variables

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:00887] Re: local / dynamic variables"
    on 99/10/30, ts <[e-mail]> writes:

| I'm always surprised (I came from perl) :-)

Perl and Ruby are similar, but not same, as you know.

|G>   (lines + "\n").each_with_index{|w,i| break if /z/ =~ w}

| Is this equivalent to  w =~ /z/ ?

Yes.  Both String and Regexp class have the method =~ to match.
In Ruby, using Regexp method (e.g. /z/ =~ w) is preferred way.
Because pattern matching is considered to be the function of the
Regexp class.  But in case `String =~ String', the latter string is
considered as the pattern, following the tradition.

| Apparently it has 2 differents node (MATCH2 and MATCH3)

MATCH2 and MATCH3 are just performance tweaking.

                                                        matz.