From: lasitha <lasitha.ranatunga@...>
Date: 2009-02-21T03:51:07+09:00
Subject: Re: String#include? with several possibilities?

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Aldric Giacomoni
<"aldric[remove]"@trevoke.net> wrote:
> Say I have a string like.. At random...
> string = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
> I'd like to do something like:
> puts "Yes!" if string.include? ('quick', 'brown', 'lazy')
> Expected behavior : if -any- of them are included, return true.
>
> Is that possible with a built-in method?

$: irb
01> s = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
--> "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
02> s =~ /(quick|brown|fox)/
--> 4
03> s =~ /(not|this|nor|that)/
--> nil

Cheers,
lasitha.