String#include? with several possibilities?

[Aldric Giacomoni]

Say I have a string like.. At random...
string = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
I'd like to do something like:
puts "Yes!" if string.include? ('quick', 'brown', 'lazy')
Expected behavior : if -any- of them are included, return true.

Is that possible with a built-in method?

Thanks,
--Aldric

 

[lasitha]

Say I have a string like.. At random...
string = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
I'd like to do something like:
puts "Yes!" if string.include? ('quick', 'brown', 'lazy')
Expected behavior : if -any- of them are included, return true.

Is that possible with a built-in method?

$: irb
01> s = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
--> "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
02> s =~ /(quick|brown|fox)/
--> 4
03> s =~ /(not|this|nor|that)/
--> nil

Cheers,
lasitha.

 

[Aldric Giacomoni]

$: irb
01> s = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
--> "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
02> s =~ /(quick|brown|fox)/
--> 4
03> s =~ /(not|this|nor|that)/
--> nil

Cheers,
lasitha.

Oh.. Duh! Must learn to thing with regexp. Thank you! What does the
number mean?

--Aldric

 

[Gary Wright]

pattern = Regexp.union(*%w{quick brown lazy})
string = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

puts "Yes!" if string =~ pattern

 

[lasitha]

$: irb
01> s = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
--> "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
02> s =~ /(quick|brown|fox)/
--> 4
03> s =~ /(not|this|nor|that)/
--> nil

Oh.. Duh! Must learn to thing with regexp. Thank you! What does the number
mean?[/QUOTE]

It was a mindshift for me too, no doubt.

If i give you a couple more samples i'm sure you'll figure out what
the number stands for

$: irb
01> s = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
--> "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
02> s =~ /quick|brown|fox/
--> 4
03> s =~ /brown|fox/
--> 10
04> s =~ /fox/
--> 16

By the way, the parentheses surrounding the union in my previous post
were superfluous.

Cheers,
lasitha.