From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-02-06T00:52:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby feature request - enum.detect_index

On Feb 5, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:

> Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> In message "Re: Ruby feature request - enum.detect_index"
>>    on Sun, 5 Feb 2006 23:43:19 +0900, "jonT" <j@Tippell.com> writes:
>>> detect works great but doesn't supply the index of the match. It
>>> would be nice to have a method detect_index that returned the index
>>> rather than the object.
>> Nice idea.  I'd rather name it 'find_index' though.
>
> Don't we have that already?
>
>>> %w{foo bar baz}.index "baz"
> => 2
>
> Or am I missing something?

You can not use a block of Ruby code to select the item you would  
like an index for, in this example.

James Edward Gray II