Ruby: Return boolean for regex comparison
A collection of code snippets which return a boolean value for a regex comparison.
regexp.match?(string) # Recommended for Ruby >= 2.4
!!(string =~ regexp) # Recommended for older Rubies
regexp === string
!(regexp !~ string)
The Ruby 2.4 method
Regexp#match?
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does not set globals like $~ or $1, so it should be more performant.
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