From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-02-23T04:48:31+09:00
Subject: Re: A regexp for an include? method

Boucher, Eric wrote:
> 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.

myArray.flatten.grep(/myPattern/)