From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-02-18T21:06:49+09:00
Subject: Re: exit in a bloc DRY way...

Isn't #find better than #select?

select wouldn't break the first time a match was found, find would.
Less time, less memory.

Aur Saraf

On 2/18/07, Sharon Phillips <phillipsds@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think this should do the job
> nb-=1 if contact.select{|c| c==parameter}.any?
>
> it will return nb-1 if any contact matches parameter, or nil if none
> match
>
> cheers,
> Dave
>
>
> On 18/02/2007, at 10:45 PM, Josselin wrote:
>
> > I wrote this code that's running well..
> >           origin = false
> >           contact.each {|c|  origin = true  if c.from == parameter }
> >           nb -= 1 if origin
> >
> > is there any way to write it in one line ?  (exiting from the bloc
> > when the condition is true)
> > something like :
> >           contact.each {|c|  nb -= 1; exit;  if c.from == parameter }
> >
> > tfyl
> >
> > joss
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>