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Yuval Karmi
Yuval Karmi

Reputation: 26713

How to use the rails match method with a string?

Is there a way to use the rails match method with a simple string, rather than a regular expression? I'm trying to match a url as such

sometext.match('http://www.example.com')

The problem is, this is stil getting evaluated as a regular expression, so I have to escape all the special characters for this to work properly, as such:

sometext.match('http:\/\/www.example\.com\?foo=bar')

If there's no way to match just a string, is there a way to escape it automatically for regular expressions?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 15972

Answers (2)

Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas

Reputation: 37517

If you just want to know if a string is part of another, use include?.

sometext.include?("http://www.example.com/")

Upvotes: 12

vise
vise

Reputation: 13383

You could try something like:

sometext =~ %r{http://example.com?foo=bar}

Upvotes: 3

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