From: "Ball, Donald A Jr (Library)" <donald.ball@...>
Date: 2007-05-10T03:17:31+09:00
Subject: Re: wildcard arrays or lists

> -----Original Message-----
> From: anansi [mailto:kazaam@oleco.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:15 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: wildcard arrays or lists
> 
> hi ,
> I wondered if it is possible to tell ruby to accept wildcards 
> in arrays or lists. I have a function which relys on .each 
> and accepts arrays and lists of IP's. Is it possible to use 
> wildcards in an array like
> 
> buff = Array(127.0.*.*)

There's a nice ipaddr library in the stdlib which models ip networks and
addresses, you might want to look at it:

network = IPAddr.new('192.168.0.0/16')
network.include?(IPAddr.new('192.168.0.1'))

- donald