From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-08-24T04:55:11+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp or not

Hi --

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Josselin wrote:

> I am not yet a big friend of reegxp.. and I don't actually know if I should 
> use it or any other function
> but I'd like to know the easiest path to do the following :
>
> I get a string   person = 'Clara Mint" which is a full name
> and I would like to find the object "id" in a collection using this  full 
> name :
>
> people = [ ["id" => "1", "first" => "Jack", "last" => "Johnson"], ["id" => 
> "2", "first" => "Ben", "last" => "Kenneth"], ["id" => "3", "first" => "Ken", 
> "last" => "Olsen"], ["id" => "4", "first" => "Howard", "last" => "Wong"], 
> ["id" => "5", "first" => "Clara", "last" => "Mint"], ["id" => "7", "first" => 
> "Che", "last" => "Guevara"]]
>
> any hint to start ?

I'm wondering whether your data structure is what you want.  Right now
you've got an array of arrays of hashes.  Are you sure you don't just
want an array of hashes?


David

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