How to check whether an array contains a substring within a string in Ruby?

Question

I have an array of strings:

string_array = ['memberid', 'membershiptype', 'date']

Now I need to check whether or not this array contains 'id', and I want it to return true.

I know I can do string_array.include? 'memberid', but I need to find a substring within that string of 'id'.

Eric Andres · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-07 19:00:41Z

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string_array.any? { |e| e.include? 'id' }

any? returns true if any of the elements in the array are true for the given predicate (i.e. the block passed to any?)

answered Oct 7, 2013 at 19:00

Eric Andres

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string_array.any?{|x| x['id'] } and !string_array.grep(/id/).empty? also works.