From: Jens Wille <jens.wille@...>
Date: 2008-04-30T23:25:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Search string for occurneces of words stored in array

ok, i withdraw my post. david's just quicker... ;-)

Jens Wille [2008-04-30 16:18]:
> sentence =~ Regexp.union(*words)
one addition regarding the regexp, though. in case words may contain
special characters, it's safer to escape them first:

  sentence =~ Regexp.union(*words.map { |word| Regexp.escape(word) })

cheers
jens