From: nephish <nephish@...>
Date: 2006-11-11T15:50:08+09:00
Subject: Re: can i shorten up this function ?


Bryan Smith wrote:
> Simply chaining together what you have already provided:
>
> def get_in_list(status)
>   'x,j,m,jrn,fnk,foo,other'.split(',').include?(status)
> end
>
> Don't know how pretty a hand-coded, comma-delimited string is, though. =)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Bryan
>
> On 11/11/06, nephish <nephish@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hey there, i have a function that checks to see if a string is in a
> > comma separated list
> >
> > it looks like this
> > def get_in_list(status)
> >         my_list = 'x,j,m,jrn,fnk,foo,other'
> >         my_list_array = my_list.split(',')
> >         if my_list_array.include?(status)
> >             return true
> >         else
> >            return false
> >         end
> > end
> >
> > i dunno, just thought there might be a prettier way to do this.
> > any suggestions ?
> > thanks
> >
> >
> >

much better, thanks. the list is an example of a string in a database.
yeah, ugly.

thanks again
sk