From: David Chelimsky <dchelimsky@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T09:41:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding if an array contains a data type

On Jan 3, 2008 6:27 PM, Sam Phoneix <dominicjefferies@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Say I wanted to see if an array contained a number or not. Would I use
> the match method?
>
> E.g.
>
> x=["a","b",2, "c"]
>
> puts("This array contains numbers") if x.match(/\d/)

Not sure if this is the simplest way, but if you're looking for actual
numbers (not strings that look like numbers) you could do this:

puts("This array contains numbers") if x.find {|n| Numeric === n}

Cheers,
David