Check if file contains a specific word

Question

In Ruby, how can I check if some file contains some word? I've tried this:

foo = File.open('some-file', 'r').read
foo.index(/^word$/)

But this won't work.

Answer 1

File.readlines('some-file').grep(/word/)

Remeber that ^ matches against the beginning of a line, and $ matches against the end of a line. So if you search for ^xyz$ you are really searching for either xyz\n (beginning of file) or \nxyz\n (somewhere in the middle of the file). No other strings will match.

Answer 2

You are searching for a line, which contains just that word. Maybe a less constrained search helps:

foo.index(/word/)