Finding if a sentence contains a specific phrase in Ruby

Question

Right now I am seeing if a sentence contains a specific word by splitting the sentence into an array and then doing an include to see if it contains the word. Something lik

Answer 1

If you're not familiar with regular expressions, I believe they can solve your problem here:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/ruby.html

Basically you'll create a regular expression object looking for "awesome" (most likely case insensitive) and then you can do

/regex/.match(string)

To return match data. If you want to return the index the character is at you can do this:

match = "This is my awesome sentence." =~ /awesome/
puts match   #This will return the index of the first letter, so the first a in awesome

I'd read the article for more details though as it explains it better than I would. If you don't want to understand it as much and just want to jump into using it, I'd recommend this:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Regexp.html