Ruby: How to check if a string contains multiple items?

Question

I\'m familiar with Ruby\'s include? method for strings, but how can I check a string for multiple things?

Specifically, I need to check if a string cont

Answer 1

the_string =~ /fwd:|fw:/i

You could also use something like

%w(fwd: fw:).any? {|str| the_string.downcase.include? str}

Though personally I like the version using the regex better in this case (especially as you have to call downcase in the second one to make it case insensitive).