From a60a58b183cfef7fc53ef7e1d3b7c661bd97d3cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: drbrain Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 23:17:00 +0000 Subject: * doc/re.rdoc: Completed wording in the description of the =~ operator. [ruby-trunk - Bug #6529] git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@35976 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- doc/re.rdoc | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/re.rdoc b/doc/re.rdoc index 5f49ae228d..b912ca1d32 100644 --- a/doc/re.rdoc +++ b/doc/re.rdoc @@ -32,11 +32,15 @@ method. === =~ operator =~ is Ruby's basic pattern-matching operator. When one operand is a -regular expression and is a string (this operator is equivalently defined by -Regexp and String). If a match is found, the operator returns index of first -match in string, otherwise it returns +nil+. +regular expression and the other is a string then the regular expression is +used as a pattern to match against the string. (This operator is equivalently +defined by Regexp and String so the order of String and Regexp do not matter. +Other classes may have different implementations of =~.) If a match +is found, the operator returns index of first match in string, otherwise it +returns +nil+. /hay/ =~ 'haystack' #=> 0 + 'haystack' =~ /hay/ #=> 0 /a/ =~ 'haystack' #=> 1 /u/ =~ 'haystack' #=> nil -- cgit v1.2.3