From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T07:17:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Searching Stings with Arrays?

On 12/21/06, Phil Cooperking <phil@basicmind.co.uk> wrote:
>
> this is what I got
> @string = "mozilla/5.0 (macintosh; u; ppc mac os x; en)
> applewebkit/418.9.1 (khtml, like gecko) safari/419.3"
>
> array = ["shiira", "msie", "safari",  "firefox", "netscape"]
>
> so I'd like to search the string for any matches, it should stop at
> safari and bob's sombodys uncle.

array.find {|b| @string =~ /#{b}/}

Iterates over each entry of the array, makes a regexp of it (the
/#{b}/ bit) and matches that against the string. (Ideally, you want
@string =~ Regexp.escape(b), but with the strings you have it comes to
the same thing.)

martin