From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-12-27T11:24:58+09:00
Subject: Re: using reg expr with array.index

On Dec 26, 4:32 pm, Esmail <ebonak_de...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> If I have an array ar of strings that contains
> for instance
>
> aaaa
> bbbb
> cccc
>  >dddd
> eeee
> dddd
> cccc
> etc.
>
> is there a way to use ar.index with a regular
> expression to get the index of the line >dddd
>
> I've tried ar.index(/^>/) and (/^\>/) without
> much luck.
>
> In other words, I'm trying to match on the first
> character which is a >
>
> Thanks.

['aaaa', '>bbbb', 'cccc'].find { | e | e =~ /^>/ }

Regards,
Jordan