From: matt@... (Matt Neuburg)
Date: 2011-09-16T02:40:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Tough Ruby Homework

It might help to note that an array is an enumerable and that enumerable
gives you each_slice. So if you really mean a word and the 3 words on
either side of it, that's 7 words - and so if you take slices of 7
elements, you can examine each one to see if its middle item is your
word. m.

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.

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