From: Matthew Moss <matthew.moss.coder@...>
Date: 2006-05-06T04:51:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question

What he's saying is that he wants both "&Edit" and "Vi&ew" to show up
because both have an 'e' after the ampersand.

I take it these are identifiers for Windows menus or the like, so the
character after the ampersand has to be unique within a particular
set.


On 5/5/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On May 5, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Kyle Alons wrote:
>
> > James Gray wrote:
> >>>> ["&abc", "a&cb", "b&ac", "ccc", "cb&a"].grep(/&../)
> >> => ["&abc", "a&cb", "b&ac"]
> >>
> >> Hope that helps.
> >
> > That's not quite it.  That seems to match all strings containing an
> > ampersand followed by 2 other characters.  What I need is all strings
> > that have duplicate characters following an & (&a in the above).
> > Something a little more concrete:
> >
> > ["&File", "&Edit", "Vi&ew", "P&roject", "T&ree", "Favo&rites",
> > "&Help"]
> >
> > would return
> >
> > ["&Edit", "Vi&ew", "P&roject", "T&ree", "Favo&rites"]
> >
> > (&e and &r are found multiple times).
>
> No letters are duplicated in "&Edit".
>
> I clearly don't understand your goal, but you solve it like this:
>
> array_of_strings.select do |string|
>    # put test against string here...
> end
>
> Sorry I am not more help.
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>