From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-04-05T09:35:47+09:00
Subject: Re: compare to strings

Hi --

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Clint Pidlubny wrote:

> Hello,
>
> What is the best approach to searching a string for another string?
>
> For instance, I have:
>
> url1 = 'http://www.url.com'
> url2 = 'http://www.url.com/page'
>
> If part of url1 is in url2, like above, I'd like to declare it a
> match. I'm sure this happens using a regular expression, but my
> experience is limited with them.
>
> The other problem is that I'm not going to be looking for just one
> url1, but I have an entire database table full of those to compare to
> an entire database table of url2.
>
> Any thoughts on approaching this problem are appreciated.

It's not a complete answer, but in case it helps: String has an
include? method:

   url2.include?(url1) => true


David

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