If statement in Ruby using Regex

Question

Everything seems to be working fine except the commented line:

#return false if not s[0].upcase =~ /AZ/

and the fourth check.

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Answer 1

I'm also not sure what your regex is trying to achieve, so I can't suggest a fix. But for the entire method, I'd keep it simple by using the === operator and making the regex case-insensitive with the i option:

def starts_with_consonant?(s)
    /^[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz]/i === s
end