From: Joshua Ball <chezball@...>
Date: 2008-12-18T13:45:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Array problem

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Actually,  the regex should have the end of string anchor:
array.delete_if { |elem| not elem =~ /.bmp$/i }

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Joshua Ball <chezball@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think this should do it:
>
> array.delete_if { |elem| not elem =~ /.bmp/i }
> It worked for the following test:
> array = [ "manyThings.mp3", "myLike.gif", "moreCoco.BmP", "theFormat.bmp"]
> array.delete_if { |elem| not elem =~ /.bmp/i }
> array.each do |elem|
>  puts elem
> end
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:22 PM, John Zoldiark <tavarezjonathan@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
>  > I have an array like this:
> > array = [ "manyThings.mp3", "myLike.gif", "moreCoco.bmp",
> > "theFormat.bmp"]
> >
> > and I want to make some comparison to eliminate all the words in the
> > array that are NOT of the bmp format.  So at the end the array will look
> > like this:
> >
> > array = ["moreCoco.bmp", "theFormat.bmp"]
> >
> > is there a way to do this???
> >
> > Many thanks for the help
> > --
> > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> >
> >
>

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