From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-02-27T10:26:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9 doesn't hace String#any?

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
> El Viernes, 27 de Febrero de 2009, Iñaki Baz Castillo escribió:
>> Hi, I'm trying:
>>   ruby 1.9.0 (2007-08-30 patchlevel 0) [i486-linux]
>> in Ubuntu.
>>
>> I've realized that there is no method String#any?
>> Why? maybe it exists in a more recent version of 1.9?
>> Which would be the replacement method if not?
>
> Ok I've found that in Ruby 1.9 String is no more an Enumerable (and "any?" is
> defined in Enumerable module).

Right, so you just need to be specific about what you want to enumerate over:

>> "foo\nbar".lines.any? { |e| e == "bar" }
=> true
>> "foo\nbar".chars.any? { |e| e == "b" }
=> true
>> "foo\nbar".bytes.any? { |e| e == 97 }
=> true
>> 97.chr
=> "a"


-greg

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