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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> ruby-talk
ruby-talk
Doing an AND in regexp char class
by Todd Benson other posts by this author
May 8 2008 2:41PM messages near this date
Hoe and multiple gems | Re: Doing an AND in regexp char class
This question arises out of a couple of recent threads and may or may
not be a Ruby-specific question.

I can check with a character class if one of the characters in the
class exists or does not exist, but can I use a regexp to check if a
string absolutely contains all of the characters in the class?

Using a set perspective, I can do it like this in irb...

s1 = "hello there"
s2 = "ohi"
(s2.unpack('c*') & s1.unpack('c*')).size == s2.size

=>  false

I use unpack to avoid creating a bunch of String objects, one for each
element in the array, which would happen if I used #split.  What I'm
wondering is if there is a way to do this with a simple regexp.

Thanks,
Todd
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Rick DeNatale
Ara.T.Howard
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Joel VanderWerf
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