From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2003-06-25T23:36:36+09:00
Subject: Re: another problem with regular expressions

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 00:38, Rob wrote:
> I have an array with the following elements:
> 
> array[0] = "car"
> array[1] = "bike"
> array[2] = "motorcicle"
> .......
> array[n] = .........
> 
> And I have a string with the following text.
> 
> "Today I went to school by car. I saw............ "
> 
> What I am trying to do is that everytime the program finds one of the words
> from the list in the text,
> it will place an astherisc * to replace that word.
> 

sentence.gsub!(Regexp.new(array.join('|')), '*')

Ari