What's the problem with array.include?

Here is my code:

class MyNewClass
   @hash = {}
   @arr = []
   @a = []
   IO.foreach("file.txt") do |riga|
     codice,cognome,nome,servizio,mail = riga.chomp.split(/\t/)
     @hash.store("#{mail}","#{cognome} #{nome}")
   end
   IO.foreach("mail.log") do |riga1|
     if riga1.match(/Passed/)
       @a=riga1.scan(/<(.*?@.*?)>|\(\?\)/)
       @hash.each_key do |mail|
         if @a.include?(mail)
           puts "#{mail} found"
         elsif
           puts "not found!!!!"
         end
       end
     end
   end
end

@a.include?(mail) it seems don't work.
I'm sure that there is at least one value true, but the result is always "not found".
What is the problem?

  @a =
  IO.foreach("file.txt") do |riga|
    codice,cognome,nome,servizio,mail = riga.chomp.split(/\t/)
    @hash.store("#{mail}","#{cognome} #{nome}")
  end
  IO.foreach("mail.log") do |riga1|
    if riga1.match(/Passed/)
      @a=riga1.scan(/<(.*?@.*?)>|\(\?\)/)
      @hash.each_key do |mail|
        if @a.include?(mail)

<snip>

@a.include?(mail) it seems don't work.
I'm sure that there is at least one value true, but the result is always "not found".
What is the problem?

@a stores something different from what you seem to think, print it.

-- fxn

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On Apr 8, 2007, at 8:45 PM, music wrote:

Here is my code:

<snip>

@a.include?(mail) it seems don't work.
I'm sure that there is at least one value true, but the result is always
"not found". What is the problem?

Is there any chance that there's some additional whitespace around the
e-mail address, either in the first file ("file.txt") or the log file
("mail.log")? That would probably be enough to cause include? not to
find the match (since it's looking for an exact match).

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On 4/8/07, music <music@musi.ca> wrote:

Lyle Johnson wrote:

Here is my code:

<snip>

@a.include?(mail) it seems don't work.
I'm sure that there is at least one value true, but the result is always
"not found". What is the problem?

Is there any chance that there's some additional whitespace around the
e-mail address, either in the first file ("file.txt") or the log file
("mail.log")? That would probably be enough to cause include? not to
find the match (since it's looking for an exact match).

here is some hash.key values from:
@file=File.new("hash.txt", "w+")
@hash.each_key {|x| @file.write x}

this is the content of hash.txt:
prova@azienda.itprova1@nonloso.it@utente1@azienda.it

and
@file=File.new("arr.txt", "w+")
@a.each {|x| @file.write x}

this is the content of arr.txt file:
ancora@nonloso.itchi@azienda.itprova@azienda.it

as you see prova@azienda.it is in hash and in arr then it is in @hash and in @a but @a.include?(value) it doesn't find it.

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On 4/8/07, music <music@musi.ca> wrote:

As I said before please inspect @a, its elements are not what you think. As a hint

   puts @a.first.class

Then read the docs of String#scan to understand why you are after something like

   @a.flatten.compact

-- fxn

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On Apr 8, 2007, at 9:55 PM, music wrote:

as you see prova@azienda.it is in hash and in arr then it is in @hash and in @a but @a.include?(value) it doesn't find it.

Xavier Noria wrote:

as you see prova@azienda.it is in hash and in arr then it is in @hash and in @a but @a.include?(value) it doesn't find it.

As I said before please inspect @a, its elements are not what you think. As a hint

  puts @a.first.class

This returns Array, it seems the correct answer I think.

Then read the docs of String#scan to understand why you are after something like

  @a.flatten.compact

Great.....with @a=riga1.scan(/<(.*?@.*?)>|\(\?\)/).flatten.compact in place of
@a=riga1.scan(/<(.*?@.*?)>|\(\?\)/) puts @a.first.class returns String and the code now works well.
Sorry but I'm newbie on ruby, can you explain why it works now?
Thank you.

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On Apr 8, 2007, at 9:55 PM, music wrote:

When the regexp has groups String#scan returns an array of arrays, each one consisting of the corresponding captures:

   irb(main):002:0> "foo bar".scan(/\b(\S)|(\S)\b/)
   => [["f", nil], [nil, "o"], ["b", nil], [nil, "r"]]

Those nils come from the fact that even if the pipe guarantees only one side will match, the regexp as such still has two groups.

When there are no groups you get an array of strings with the actual matches

   irb(main):003:0> "foo bar baz".scan(/\w+/)
   => ["foo", "bar", "baz"]

which I guess is what you thought @a contained.

-- fxn

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On Apr 8, 2007, at 10:40 PM, music wrote:

Xavier Noria wrote:

On Apr 8, 2007, at 9:55 PM, music wrote:

as you see prova@azienda.it is in hash and in arr then it is in @hash and in @a but @a.include?(value) it doesn't find it.

As I said before please inspect @a, its elements are not what you think. As a hint
  puts @a.first.class

This returns Array, it seems the correct answer I think.

Then read the docs of String#scan to understand why you are after something like
  @a.flatten.compact

Great.....with @a=riga1.scan(/<(.*?@.*?)>|\(\?\)/).flatten.compact in place of
@a=riga1.scan(/<(.*?@.*?)>|\(\?\)/) puts @a.first.class returns String and the code now works well.
Sorry but I'm newbie on ruby, can you explain why it works now?