From: "Boucher, Eric" <eric.boucher@...>
Date: 2006-02-22T21:52:03+09:00
Subject: A regexp for an include? method

Hi,

I want to see if a certain pattern is inside an array. I tried:
myArray.flatten.include?(/myPattern/)

but it always return false. Why? Is it because the "include?" doesn't takes
regular expressions?
Here's another example that I tried inside an irb session:

data = ["TC_TP1", "TC_TP2", "TC_TP3"]
=>["TC_TP1", "TC_TP2", "TC_TP3"]
data.include?(/TC_TP/)
=> false
data.include?(/TC_TP.*/)
=> false
data.include?(/TC_TP1/)
=> false
data.include?("TC_TP1")
=> true !!!

Thanks for your help.