The Simplest Expressions: Literal Strings
The simplest regular expressions are simply literal strings. There are plenty of times when itâs enough to search against a fixed search pattern. For example, you might test for the presence of the string âRubyâ:
sentence = "Ruby is the best Ruby-like programming language." sentence =~ /Ruby/ # => 2 - There are two instances of "Ruby".
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