Brian Candler
7/7/2003 6:07:00 PM
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:52:44AM +0900, Michael Campbell wrote:
> > Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:
> > > > Just remember, string goes on the left, regex goes on the right.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Actually, it doesn''t matter, but Matz prefers the regex on the left.
> >
> > Heh. Learn something new every day.
>
>
> I always wondered about that. It "reads" funny to my brain that way but I
> wasn''t consulted. =D Too, it''s easy enough to do either direction, so no
> worries.
I think regex-on-right is a perlism, but even in Ruby if you use =~ on two
strings, it''s the one on the right which is treated as a regex:
irb(main):003:0> "abc" =~ "b"
=> 1
irb(main):004:0> "b" =~ "abc"
=> nil
Cheers,
Brian.