From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2011-09-14T23:23:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Tough Ruby Homework

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Rory Pascua <rorypascua@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to take a long piece of text, find a word, and get that word
> and the 3 words on either side of it and put that new "string" into
> another variable.
>
> Example:
>
> I have a sentence like "Robert likes green beans, girls with moustaches,
> and teddy bears.  John thinks Robert is strange".  I am searching for
> the word "Robert", so I want to return the following:
>
> ["Robert likes green", "bears. John thinks Robert is strange."]
> (doesn't have to be in an array, but you get the idea)
>
> I obviously use index to get the places where "Robert" can be found, but
> any suggestion on how to do the rest?
>
> Bonus points: if you can do the same thing for multiple words...back to
> the example, but search for "green AND teddy"...you'd get:
>
> ["Robert likes green beans, girls", "with moustaches, and teddy bears.
> John thinks"] as a result.
>
> I'm posting this because I couldn't seem to find an easy way to do it..
>
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
Check out String#split (
http://rdoc.info/stdlib/core/1.9.2/String#split-instance_method) that should
help you get it into an array, which should be a lot easier to work with.

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