From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-04-30T23:09:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Search string for occurneces of words stored in array

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John Butler wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I have a sentence "This is my test sentence" and an array["is", "the",
| "my"] and what i need to do is find the occurence of any of thearray
| words in the sentence.
|
| I have this working in a loop but i was wondering is there a way to do
| it using one of rubys string methods.
|
| Its sililar to the include method but searching for multiple words not
| just one.
|
| "This is my test sentence".include?("This") returns true
|
| but i want something like
|
| "This is my test sentence".include?("This", "is", "my")
|
| anyone got a nice way to do this? I only need to find if one of the
| words occure and then i exit.
|
| JB

How about '["is", "the", "my"].each'?

I.e.:

["is", "the", "my"].each do |word|
~  break if "the test sentence'.include? word
end

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