From: Jeremy Woertink <jeremywoertink@...>
Date: 2009-11-24T01:56:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to search through an array for an item matching a s

Daniel Webb wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> 
> am trying to find a nice easy/simple way to
> - search through an array of strings match the string I've input
> - use  that index to print out the word before in the array.
> 
> for example
> [ahoy there,hello,me hearties,dear friends]
> 
> 'hello' should output 'ahoy there'
> 
> http://pastie.org/711384
> 
> I'm hoping there's a way of doing this without regexp...
> 
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> Dan


ary = ["hello", "hey", "hi", "hola"]
ary[ary.index("hey") - 1] #=> "hello"
ary[ary.index("hello") - 1] #=> "hola"
ary.index("sup") #=> nil


Maybe that will give ya a bit of a boost!

~Jeremy


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