match doesn't require a regular expression as an argument, it converts any string supplied into a regular expression : match « String « Ruby






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match doesn't require a regular expression as an argument, it converts any string supplied into a regular expression

puts "String has vowels" if "This is a test".match("[aeiou]")








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