# Re: string range membership

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-string-range-membership/48739>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 23, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-string-range-membership/48739 "2005-11-23T23:54:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![daniels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@daniels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daniels)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-string-range-membership/48739/1 "2005-11-23T23:54:37Z")

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ruby -e “p (‘1’…‘10’).find {|x| x == ‘2’}”  
“2”

It wont be as fast as Range#include, but you can’t put the equivalent  
into Range without giving it knowledge about how String#succ works.  
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