What does the method do! ~ With a string in Ruby

Question

From @sawa's answer: stack overflow

What does it do !~?

Example:

re = /[^\d.,]/
"0.0687987167581341,0.120311605902415,89.8399554017928,198.151088713489" !~ re

I could not find the documentation in String or Regexp

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Abdo Feb 19 '14 at 23:45

2 answers

, . =~

-, - .

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ChicagoRedSox 19 . '14 23:49

mdesantis · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-19T23:53:18+0000

The method !~is the inverse of =~, that is !(=~). From the Ruby Object#!~documentation :

[obj! ~ other] returns true if the two objects do not match (using the = ~ method), false otherwise.

, String#=~ / , , , nil String#!~ return false, , true .