From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-09-10T21:03:17+09:00
Subject: Re: How about Enumerable#find_pattern?

Hi --

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, A. S. Bradbury wrote:

> Ignore the name, I don't really know what it's best to call it. Basically I've
> been thinking it might be useful if Enumerable had a method to efficiently
> search for a pattern in an Enumerable object. Existing methods like #find and
> #grep work only on matching a single object.

#find, yes, but #grep does something similar to what I understand you
to be describing:

%w{a b c}.grep(/./)
=> ["a", "b", "c"]
irb(main):002:0> str = "a\nb\nc"
=> "a\nb\nc"
irb(main):003:0> str.grep(/./)
=> ["a\n", "b\n", "c"]


David

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