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Fix link. And I had to move it to a reference in the bottom because StackOverflow's ridiculous rule that does not allow to change one single character.

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edit approved Aug 7, 2019 at 10:29

Daniel

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Yes: !~ works just fine – you probably thought it wouldn’t because it’s missing from the documentation page of Regexpit’s missing from the documentation page of Regexp. Nevertheless, it works:

irb(main):001:0> 'x' !~ /x/
=> false
irb(main):002:0> 'x' !~ /y/
=> true

Yes: !~ works just fine – you probably thought it wouldn’t because it’s missing from the documentation page of Regexp. Nevertheless, it works:

irb(main):001:0> 'x' !~ /x/
=> false
irb(main):002:0> 'x' !~ /y/
=> true

Yes: !~ works just fine – you probably thought it wouldn’t because it’s missing from the documentation page of Regexp. Nevertheless, it works:

irb(main):001:0> 'x' !~ /x/
=> false
irb(main):002:0> 'x' !~ /y/
=> true

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answered Dec 7, 2012 at 8:04

Konrad Rudolph

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Yes: !~ works just fine – you probably thought it wouldn’t because it’s missing from the documentation page of Regexp. Nevertheless, it works:

irb(main):001:0> 'x' !~ /x/
=> false
irb(main):002:0> 'x' !~ /y/
=> true

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