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 Prog_i.rb ./store
Prog_ii Prog_ii.rb ./store
This fails and I'm not sure why. Basically I want the comment lines and blank lines to be ignored during the processing of the lines in the file. Thanks for your help.
