Bug #6529: missing words in description of =~ operator for Regexp

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 1.9.3

[nathanst (Nathan Stratton Treadway)]

Currently the Regexp class documentation contains the following: "=~ 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 [...]"

"and is a string" seems to have be missing a word or two....would it make sense to change that second sentence to something like the following?: "When one operand is a regular expression and the other is a string, then the regexp is used as a pattern to match against the string. (This operator is equivalently defined by Regexp and String, and order in which the operands appear does not matter.) If a match is found [...]"

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Category set to doc
• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to drbrain (Eric Hodel)

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r35976.
Nathan, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• doc/re.rdoc: Completed wording in the description of the =~ operator.
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