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Why u no use hash?

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Wayne Brissette <wbrisett / att.net> wrote:

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> On Dec 3, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Ammar Ali wrote:
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> > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Wayne Brissette <wbrisett / att.net>
> wrote:
> >> Thanks. Both of these have given me more food for thought. I knew grep
> should have worked. The issue Ammar that I see with it though is I have to
> pass item via a variable and that doesn't seem to be working very well. The
> any? option Peter suggested does however seem to work. I'll need to see if
> I notice any performance issues using it though.
> >>
> >
> > FYI, you can use variables inside the regular expression.
> >
> >>> name  fred"
> > "fred"
> >>> names.grep /#{name}/i
> > ["fred,9"]
>
> AH! Thanks! I was using it incorrectly. That will teach me to code before
> I have two cups of coffee. :)
>
> Wayne
>
>
>


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