Ruby: =~ symbol - what does it mean

Asked Dec 14 '15 at 01:10

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What does =~ in ruby mean?

I tried to get help on codementor.io recently and the change made to this tutorial:

was to replace this line:

self.email && self.email !~ TEMP_EMAIL_REGEX

with this line:

self.email && TEMP_EMAIL_REGEX =~ self.email

What does =~ mean?

asked Dec 14 '15 at 01:10

Mel

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First result on google: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3025838/what-is-the-operator-in-ruby – jjm Dec 14 '15 at 01:12
Thanks - I've been googling for an hour. Closest I could get was != – Mel Dec 14 '15 at 01:21
I find [SymbolHound](http://symbolhound.com/?q=ruby+%3D%7E) to be better at this sort of thing than Google. – mu is too short Dec 14 '15 at 01:35

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