From: Thorsten Haude <ruby@...>
Date: 2006-08-24T04:18:00+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp or not

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Hi,

* Josselin wrote (2006-08-24 04:05):
>I get a string   person =3D 'Clara Mint" which is a full name
>and I would like to find the object "id" in a collection using this =20
>full name :
>
>people =3D [ ["id" =3D> "1", "first" =3D> "Jack", "last" =3D> "Johnson"], =
["id"=20
>=3D> "2", "first" =3D> "Ben", "last" =3D> "Kenneth"], ["id" =3D> "3", "fir=
st"=20
>=3D> "Ken", "last" =3D> "Olsen"], ["id" =3D> "4", "first" =3D> "Howard", "=
last"=20
>=3D> "Wong"], ["id" =3D> "5", "first" =3D> "Clara", "last" =3D> "Mint"], [=
"id"=20
>=3D> "7", "first" =3D> "Che", "last" =3D> "Guevara"]]

Use regexes to get first and last name, then iterate over the
collection. Untested:

person =3D~ /^(.*) (.*)$/
first =3D $1
last =3D $2
people.each do |peop|
    if first =3D=3D peop["first"] and last =3D=3D peop["last"]
        print peop["id"]
    end
end


Thorsten                                             French Kicks: Also Ran
--=20
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
    - Somerset Maugham

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