From: Jens Wille <jens.wille@...>
Date: 2008-04-27T07:03:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Howto get array.agrep (NOT array.grep)

Jens Wille [2008-04-26 22:45]:
> maybe i'll be able to come up with something that wraps flori's 
> Amatch into (Enumerable|File)#agrep.
that was actually pretty easy and is definitely an improvement (see
ruby-nuggets v0.1.9), but it still won't give us support for regular
expression patterns :-(

i also added IO::agrep, so you would now be able to do:

  %w[list1.txt list2.txt list3.txt].inject([]) { |matches, file|
    matches + File.agrep(file, /Smith\|J.*12345/, 2)
  }

-- if only you had regular expressions at your disposal!

cheers
jens