From: Tom Werner <pubsub@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T07:29:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Searching Stings with Arrays?

Phil Cooperking wrote:
> Hi, I've been having a little problem with this. most of my ruby is from
> rails and both are shaky.
>
> okay what I've got is a string (which is a browser user agent) and I
> would like to search that string with a predefined array of browsers.
> I've done this in php so I'm positve an easy solution exists in Ruby
>
> 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.
>
> this is what I've been trying to do.
> array.find {|b| b == @string}.to_s
>
> this does't work I know, but I'm I in the right direction?
>
>   

This might get you started off on the right path:

    m, agent = *@string.match(/(shiira|msie|safari|firefox|netscape)/)
    p agent

outputs

    safari

If you need further clarification of this code, just let me know.

Tom Werner