From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-09-25T14:31:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression object question

Hello Daniel,

Tuesday, September 24, 2002, 7:56:55 PM, you wrote:

DB> re = /xyz/

DB> re2 = /abc/

DB> if re.match(string) || re2.match(string)...

see eregex.rb. more effective approach:

class Array
  def =~ (str)
    find {|re| re =~ str}
  }
}

list = [/abc/, /xyz/]
list << /def/ << /tuv/
print 'Yes!' if list =~ 'qwerty'

btw, you don't need to subclass Regexp just to implement one it's
operator ;)

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 Bulat                            mailto:bulatz@integ.ru