From: Daniel Harple <dharple@...>
Date: 2006-02-27T22:43:50+09:00
Subject: Re: string contains one of these???

On Feb 27, 2006, at 2:35 PM, mikkel wrote:

> now, the hard way (more code, less thought) would be to iterate the
> array and do a ~= on it...but is there a simpler way ???

How about:

leagues = %w{1D 2D U16 U19 LR RR JNL NL}
words     = "some stuff NL is chunky".split
leagues.select { |m| words.include?(m) } # => ["NL"]

-- Daniel