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