From: Raul Jara <raul.c.jara@...>
Date: 2010-03-03T11:45:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Find and replace with values from array with gsub

@full_text_array.each_with_index do |original_name, i|
  @full_text.gsub!(original_name, @new_link_array[i])
end


Although if you have "Derek Jeter Derek Jeter" fifty times in a row 
you'll end up doing a lot of extra work.  You might want to do something 
like:

results = @full_text.scan(/([A-Z]+[a-zA-Z]* [A-Z]+[a-zA-Z]*)/)

names_links = {}

results.each do |name|
  unless names_links[name]
    names_links[name] = method_to_construct_link_for_name(name)
  end
end

results.each_pair |name, link|
  @full_text.gsub!(name, link)
end
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