This function is equivalent to Regex.match but it does not
require to compile the pattern with Regex.new, avoiding some
lines of code when you need just to do a match without extracting
substrings, capture counts, and so on.
If this function is to be called on the same pattern more than
once, it's more efficient to compile the pattern once with
Regex.new and then use Regex.match.
Scans for a match in string for pattern.
This function is equivalent to Regex.match but it does not require to compile the pattern with Regex.new, avoiding some lines of code when you need just to do a match without extracting substrings, capture counts, and so on.
If this function is to be called on the same pattern more than once, it's more efficient to compile the pattern once with Regex.new and then use Regex.match.