No proximity searches with 1.8.. you would need a full fledged text 
search engine such as lucerne, sphinx for that type of capability

ilan


Stuart Clarke wrote:
> Does Ruby have the ability to perform proximity searches on data. For
> example find the word "hello" and the word "world" within 10 words of
> eachother and print out some data?
> 
> Thanks a lot

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