From: Sam Morrison <sam@...>
Date: 2007-07-27T22:26:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp's comparison

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On 7/27/07, Marcin Tyman <m.tyman@interia.pl> wrote:
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> Assume that a, b, c, d etc.. represent one line in iptable (one entry -
> a for IP = x.x.x.x, b for y.y.y.y etc). I need to check whether 3 (not
> only one and no more than 3) rules for ip x.x.x.x are in iptables but
> these rules (lines) each time may be in different positions (other rules
> may be placed between them etc...)


You can do the scan with lenght, like this:

text = "adcdcbcdc"
text.scan(/c/).length

this will return the total times c shows up in your string.

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sam

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