From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-04-30T23:45:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Search string for occurneces of words stored in array

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:01:11 -0500, 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

Ruby quiz #103: the DictionaryMatcher
http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz103.html

You may need to do "This is my test sentence".split.any?{...} if it has 
to specifically be on words. Note that
"I am running home".include? "run"
returns true, as does "abc def".include? "c d"

--Ken

-- 
Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/