Fastest way to find a String into an array of string

Question

The script has to verify if one predefined IP is present in a big array of IPs. Currently I code that function like this (saying that \"ips\" is my array of IP and \"ip\" is the

Answer 1

have you tried the Array#include? function?

http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Array.html#method-i-include-3F

You can see from the source it does almost exactly the same thing, except natively.