Josselin wrote: > I am not yet a big friend of reegxp.. and I don't actually know if I > should use it or any other function > but I'd like to know the easiest path to do the following : > > I get a string person = 'Clara Mint" which is a full name > and I would like to find the object "id" in a collection using this > full name : > > people = [ ["id" => "1", "first" => "Jack", "last" => "Johnson"], > ["id" => "2", "first" => "Ben", "last" => "Kenneth"], ["id" => "3", > "first" => "Ken", "last" => "Olsen"], ["id" => "4", "first" => > "Howard", "last" => "Wong"], ["id" => "5", "first" => "Clara", "last" > => "Mint"], ["id" => "7", "first" => "Che", "last" => "Guevara"]] > > any hint to start ? > > Joss I'd use String#split. -Justin