How to check if a value exists in an array in Ruby
Published on 2022-01-13
Ruby has eleven methods to find elements in an array.
The preferred one is include?
or, for repeated access, create a Set and then call include?
or member?
.
Here are all of them:
array.include?(element) # preferred method array.member?(element) array.to_set.include?(element) array.to_set.member?(element) array.index(element) > 0 array.find_index(element) > 0 array.index { |each| each == element } > 0 array.find_index { |each| each == element } > 0 array.any? { |each| each == element } array.find { |each| each == element } != nil array.detect { |each| each == element } != nil
They all return a true
ish value if the element is present.