require_relative '../../spec_helper' require 'strscan' describe "StringScanner#match?" do before :each do @s = StringScanner.new("This is a test") end it "returns the length of the match and the scan pointer is not advanced" do @s.match?(/\w+/).should == 4 @s.match?(/\w+/).should == 4 @s.pos.should == 0 end it "returns nil if there's no match" do @s.match?(/\d+/).should == nil @s.match?(/\s+/).should == nil end it "effects pre_match" do @s.scan(/\w+/) @s.scan(/\s/) @s.pre_match.should == "This" @s.match?(/\w+/) @s.pre_match.should == "This " end end