From: Jim Cochrane <allergic-to-spam@...>
Date: 2006-11-11T18:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: can i shorten up this function ?

On 2006-11-11, 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
>

One possibility:

class HardCoded

	List = 'x,j,m,jrn,fnk,foo,other'.split(',')

	def self.contains(s)
		List.include?(s)
	end

end

[test:]
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
$VERBOSE = true

require 'hardcoded'

puts HardCoded.contains('bother')
puts HardCoded.contains('other')

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