Need to help on to use delete_if

Ruby
1

I need a help to fix the below code,Quick help is highly appriciated

Assume :

new_entry = TOM
nodelist = John, Tom, Ram

I have return the below code in ruby to remove the “TOM” from the “node
list” variable

def filter_word_in (new_entry, nodelist)
nodelist.delete_if {|new_entry| !new_entry.match(nodelist)}
return nodelist
end

Expected output:

node => John, Ram

Regards
Thiyagarajan

2

This is fundamentally flawed:
nodelist.delete_if {|new_entry| !new_entry.match(nodelist)}
In this, you’re ignoring the method-local variable new_entry by adding a
block-local variable with the same name.

Assuming these are strings, and standardised (TOM does not equal Tom):

new_entry = ‘Tom’
nodelist = ‘John’, ‘Tom’, ‘Ram’

nodelist.delete( new_entry )

Or you could use this:

nodelist.delete_if { |val| val == new_entry }

3

Hello,

On 23 Οκτ 2013, at 13:11 , Thiyagarajan V. [email protected] wrote:

def filter_word_in (new_entry, nodelist)
nodelist.delete_if {|new_entry| !new_entry.match(nodelist)}
return nodelist
end

Expected output:

node => John, Ram

Here

https://gist.github.com/atmosx/7116937

Regards
Thiyagarajan

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I’m not sure if this is an exercise of something, but what’s important
to note here is that you’re doing everything in RAM. When having a list
it’s better to work with database, YAML or any XML format would be a
good choice for similar sort of data.

Panagiotis (atmosx) Atmatzidis

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