Ruby: if statement using regexp and boolean operator [migrated]
- by bev
I'm learning Ruby and have failed to make a compound 'if' statement work. Here's my code (hopefully self explanatory)
commentline = Regexp.new('^;;')
blankline = Regexp.new('^(\s*)$')
if (line !~ commentline || line !~ blankline)
puts line
end
the variable 'line' is gotten from reading the following file:
;; alias filename backupDir
Prog_i…
