From: deal bitte <lists@...>
Date: 2012-07-19T20:29:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there some seach algorithm available

The excel_value is a variable . It can contain 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 words 
too

Jan E. wrote in post #1069310:
> Hi,
>
> So you're looking for the name with "deal" or "bitte" in it?
>
> Then you could do something like
>
> person_list.each do |name|
>   return name if name.split.any? do |name_part|
>     ['deal', 'bitte'].any? {|keyword| name_part.casecmp(keyword) == 0}
>   end
>   nil
> end
>
> This will split the name on spaces and check if any part is "deal" or
> "bitte", ignoring the letter case. If there's any match, this name is
> returned. If no name matches, nil is returned instead (you may also use
> person_list.first or so).

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