The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby’s Regular Expressions

23-Mar-2017 3752
Ruby 2.4.1 was released this week and included an upgrade to its underlying regular expression engine, Onigmo. The headline feature in this update was support for ‘the absent operator’ but what is this and what is it for?
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