From: "yermej@..." <yermej@...>
Date: 2007-06-26T09:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a match

On Jun 25, 5:44 pm, Ari Brown <a...@aribrown.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>         I'm looking to match a string to another string ANYWHERE in a new
> file. For instance, my code looks like such:
>
>        if readlines[*] == chosen_one          # If there's a match -
>          next                                 # Boil some brains (try
> again)
>        end
>
> My goal is to do a search through each line in the file's line
> (readlines[*]) for the chosen_one.
>
> Will Ruby support the wildcard I used? And if not, what could I do to
> fix it? BTW, this is apart of the ruby quiz if that helps.
>
> aRi

If you've read the lines in as elements of an array:

lines = the_file.readlines
lines.any? {|line| line.match chosen_one} # true if there's a match

If you've read in the lines as one big string:

lines = the_file.read
!lines.match(chosen_one).nil? # true if there's a match