Phillip Hutchings wrote: > On 7/21/06, Ben V. <comprug / gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm new to Ruby and Rails from Coldfusion, and I am already finding how >> much easier Ruby programming is, yet one thing that I haven't quite >> figured out how to do in Ruby is to test whether for example, a contains >> b. In Coldfusion we did <cfif a CONTAINS b>, but I can't seem to find a >> CONTAINS() function or operator in Ruby. What would be the Ruby >> equivalent of the code above? And How would I test if one var contains >> another, or another string? Thanks for your help and time. > > if a.include? b > > Check the documentation for Array and Hash. > > Also works for strings, if that's what you meant. (Don't know Coldfusion). -Justin