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ruby - moved grep from string method to enumerable
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example.rb
ruby-1.8.7-p352 $ irb
1.8.7 :001 > thing = 'sometext'
=> "sometext"
1.8.7 :002 > thing.grep(/some/)
=> ["sometext"]
ruby-1.9.2-p290 $ irb
1.9.2p290 :001 > thing = 'sometext'
=> "sometext"
1.9.2p290 :002 > thing.grep(/some/)
NoMethodError: undefined method `grep' for "sometext":String
from (irb):2
from /Users/michael/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/irb:16:in `<main>'
1.9.2p290 :003 > thing.lines.grep(/some/)
=> ["sometext"]
@johnenali

johnenali commented Jul 26, 2013

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thank you

@fosskers

fosskers commented Jan 10, 2015

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This has saved me just now as well.

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