From: Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T03:36:34+09:00
Subject: Re: grep-ing an array

Quoting aidy <aidy.rutter@gmail.com>:

What about Array.assoc("mystring")?

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to find whether specific strings are contained within a
> array
>
> table_array contains these elements [["", "95424", "Joe Stalin", "Field
> Sales", "80%", "27/06/06", "", "Amend"]]
>
> I am grep-ing whether the text I am looking for is in. So I have got an
> array of regex
>
> reg_text = /Stalin/, /Field Sales/, /80%/
>
> Now, if the grep finds the string pattern a full string will be
> returned
> if x.grep(y) == /Stalin/
> => ["Joe Stalin"]
>
> so, I have got another array
>
> real_text = ["Joe Stalin"], ["Field Sales"], ["80%"]
>
> this is the code
>
>  	$table_array.each{|x|
> 	  reg_text.each{|y|
> 	    real_text.each{|z|
> 	      if x.grep(y) == z then p "#{z} is in table" end
> 	    }
> 	   }
>           }
>
> But I think it is messy, and I wonder if there was a better way?
>
> Cheers
>
> aidy
>
>
>