From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2011-12-03T21:23:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a better way to check this array?

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Wayne Brissette <wbrisett@att.net> wrote:
> Thanks. Both of these have given me more food for thought. I knew grep should have worked. The issue Ammar that I see with it though is I have to pass item via a variable and that doesn't seem to be working very well. The any? option Peter suggested does however seem to work. I'll need to see if I notice any performance issues using it though.
>

FYI, you can use variables inside the regular expression.

>> name = "fred"
=> "fred"
>> names.grep /#{name}/i
=> ["fred,9"]

Regards,
Ammar