Programming Ruby 3.2 (5th Edition): p. 27:’match?’ is not synonymous to ‘=~‘
Hi @noelrappin,
first of all: It’s SO good to read an updated version of this book! Thanks for all the effort! 
The text says:
Both strings and regular expressions have a match? method which is synonymous to the =~
operator
While the two are very similar, there ist a difference in the return values (at least): ‚=~’ returns an integer or nil, ‘match?’ returns true or false.
See Class: Regexp (Ruby 3.1.2)
Cheers
Stephan
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