From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T04:23:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Using array.select with grep

Hi --

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:

> David A. Black wrote:
>> No, that's not the same.
>>
>>>> array = %w{ one two three }
>>
>> => ["one", "two", "three"]
>>
>>>> array.grep(/e/)
>>
>> => ["one", "three"]
>
> array.grep("e")
> => []
>
> So since the code in question only deals with strings and not regexen, using
> include? does indeed have the same result as checking whether grep returned
> an empty array.

Right -- I un-stringed them by mistake.


David

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